FIN111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Critical Thinking, Time Deposit, Compound Annual Growth Rate
Week 5 – The Time Value of Money
Time Value of Money
• How does a manager determine the value of a series of future cash flows, whether
paying for an asset or evaluating a project?
• What is the value of the stream of future cash flows today?
• We refer to this value as the time value of money (TVM)
Consuming Today or Tomorrow
• TVM is based on the belief that people prefer to consume goods today rather than
wait to consume similar goods tomorrow
- Positive time preference
• Money has a time value because a dollar today is worth more than a dollar
tomorrow
• Todays dollar a e iested to ear iterest or spet
Generalizations
• Value of a dollar invested (positive interest rate) grows over time
- The further in the future you receive a dollar, the less it is worth today
• Rate of interest determines trade-off between spending today versus saving
- The higher the interest rate the more likely you will invest funds
Timelines as Aids to Problem Solving
• Timelines are an easy way to visualize cash flows associated with investment
decisions → starts at 0 and shows the cash flows as they occur over time
- 0 is often the current point in time (today)
- Cash outflows as negative values
- Cash inflows as positive values
Future Value vs Present Value
• Financial decisions are evaluated either on a future value basis or present value basis
• Future value measures what one or more cash flows are worth at the end of a
specified period.
• Present value measures what one or more cash flows that are to be received in the
future will be worth today (at n=0).
• Discounting is the process of converting future cash flows to their present values
Definitions
• Principal amount is the amount invested
• Simple interest → amount of interest paid on the original principal amount.
• Interest on interest → interest earned on the reinvestment of previous interest
payments
• Compounding → process of earning interest over time.
• Compound interest → both simple interest and interest on interest
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Future Value and Compounding
• The future value of an investment is what the investment will be worth after earning
interest for one or more time periods
• Compounding → converting the initial amount into future values
Single Period Investment
• We can determine the value of an investment at the end of one period if we know
the interest rate to be earned by the investment
• If you invest for one period at an interest rate of i, your investment, or principle, will
grow by (1 + i) per dollar invested
• The term (1+ i) is the future value interest factor, often called simply the future value
interest factor
Two-period Investment
• A two-period investment is simply two single-period investments back-to-back
• After the first period, interest accrues on original investment (principle) and interest
earned in preceding periods
• The principle is the amount of money on which interest is paid
• Simple interest is the amount of interest paid on the original principle amount only
• Compounding interest consists of both simple interest and interest-on-interest
Example:
If you put $100 in a bank savings account that pays interest at 10% a year. How much money will you have in one
year?
FV = Principal + Interest earned
= $100(1 + 0.10)
= $110
Example:
Suppose you want to put your new amount of $110 back in the bank for another year at 10% interest.
How much money will you have at the end of the second year (FV2)?
- Multiply the new principal amount by the future value factor (1 + i)
FV2 = FV1 x (1 + i)
= 100(1 + 0.10)2 * the power of 2 means 2 years
= $121
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The Future Value Equation
• General equation to find the future value after any number of periods
• The term (1 + i)n is the future value factor.
FVn = PV x (1 + i)n
where:
• FVn = future value of investment at the end of period n
• PV = original principle (P0) or present value
• i = the rate of interest per period
• n = the number of periods
• (1 + i)n = the future value factor
What is the total compound interest?
Total compound interest = total simple interest + total interest on interest
• To find the total simple interest you find the simple interest for the first year then
multiply it for the amount of years
• To find the simple interest (SI):
SI = P0 x i
where:
• i = the simple interest for the period
• P0 = the initial principal amount
Example:
Suppose you decide to leave your $100 in the bank at 10% interest for 5 years. How much would you have at the
end of 5 years?
FV5 = $100(1 + 0.10)5
= $161.05
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Document Summary
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