ADM 2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Savings Account, Interest Rate, Blackboard
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Today we started to talk about the time value of money. These notes will show what was discussed in class on this particular topic. While i am unable to reproduce examples that were put on the blackboard, to better teach the subject, i am trying to provide you with similar ones. We need to understand that if you have today this money can be invested at an applicable interest rate per period of investment r and in one period you will be able to grow your investment to (1+r) Interest is annual, period of investment is one year, so, you will get (1+0. 03)=. 5 in one year. Interest is annual, but period of investment is two years. Investing for two years can be seem as investing for one year at a time (see the picture above). Thus, in two years you will get (1+0. 03) (1+0. 03)= (1+0. 03)2= . 045.