Answers and Solutions: 4 -1
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Chapter 4
Time Value of Money
4-1 a. PV (present value) is the value today of a future payment, or stream of payments,
discounted at the appropriate rate of interest. PV is also the beginning amount that
will grow to some future value. The parameter i is the periodic interest rate that an
account pays. The parameter INT is the dollars of interest earned each period. FVn
(future value) is the ending amount in an account, where n is the number of periods
the money is left in the account. PVAn is the value today of a future stream of equal
payments (an annuity) and FVAn is the ending value of a stream of equal payments,
where n is the number of payments of the annuity. PMT is equal to the dollar amount
of an equal, or constant cash flow (an annuity). In the EAR equation, m is used to
denote the number of compounding periods per year, while iNom is the nominal, or
quoted, interest rate.
b. The opportunity cost rate (i) of an investment is the rate of return available on the best
alternative investment of similar risk.
c. An annuity is a series of payments of a fixed amount for a specified number of
periods. A single sum, or lump sum payment, as opposed to an annuity, consists of
one payment occurring now or at some future time. A cash flow can be an inflow (a
d. An ordinary annuity has payments occurring at the end of each period. A deferred
annuity is just another name for an ordinary annuity. An annuity due has payments
occurring at the beginning of each period. Most financial calculators will
f. An outflow is a deposit, a cost, or an amount paid, while an inflow is a receipt. A
time line is an important tool used in time value of money analysis; it is a graphical