Chapter 16: Financing a Company’s Financial Needs
Learning Objectives
At the completion of this chapter the student should be able to:
• Explain the difference between simple interest and compound interest and explain how
they work.
• Convert an annual percentage rate to an annual percentage yield and an annual percentage
yield to an annual percentage rate.
Instructional Hints
• Many of my students have mortgages, so I like to relate these principles to mortgages
because it really hits home for them. The principles of mortgages easily transfer to long–
term loans.
Activities
• Prepare an amortization schedule for a 30-year mortgage in class. Compare the amount of
interest paid and the principal reduction during the first, second, fifth, tenth, twentieth,
Instruction Resources
• The figures, sidebars, and tables from this chapter in electronic format and PowerPoint
slides can be found at the instructor’s website.
Solutions to the Textbook Problems
1. Simple interest does not pay interests on the previous period’s interest; whereas compound
2. The interest rate that would be paid if the interest was compounded annually.