Chapter 5

Time Value of
Money
Future Value versus Present Value

Suppose a firm has an opportunity to spend

$15,000 today on some investment that will
produce $17,000 spread out over the next five
years as follows:
Year Cash flow
1 $3,000
2 $5,000
3 $4,000
4 $3,000
5 $2,000

Is this a wise investment?

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Future Value versus Present Value (cont.)

To make the right investment decision, managers

need to compare the cash flows at a single point in
time.

Figure 5.1 Time Line

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Future Value versus Present Value (cont.)
When making investment decisions, managers usually
calculate present value.

Figure 5.2 Compounding and Discounting

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Basic Patterns of Cash Flow

The three basic patterns of cash flows include:

• A single amount: A lump sum amount either held
currently or expected at some future date.
• An annuity: A level periodic stream of cash flow.
• A mixed stream: A stream of unequal periodic
cash flows.

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Future Value of a Single Amount

• Future value is the value at a given future date of

an amount placed on deposit today and earning
interest at a specified rate. Found by applying
compound interest over a specified period of time.
• Compound interest is interest that is earned on a
given deposit and has become part of the principal
at the end of a specified period.
• Principal is the amount of money on which interest
is paid.

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Future Value of a Single Amount: The
Equation for Future Value
• We use the following notation for the various inputs:
– FVn = future value at the end of period n
– PV = initial principal, or present value
– r = annual rate of interest paid. (Note: On financial
calculators, I is typically used to represent this rate.)
– n = number of periods (typically years) that the money is
left on deposit
• The general equation for the future value at the end
of period n is
FVn = PV  (1 + r)n

PVn = FV / (1 + r)n

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Future Value of a Single Amount: The
Equation for Future Value
Jane Farber places $800 in a savings account paying 6%
interest compounded annually. She wants to know how much
money will be in the account at the end of five years.

FV5 = $800  (1 + 0.06)5 = $800  (1.33823) = $1,070.58

This analysis can be depicted on a time line as follows:

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Figure 5.4
Future Value Relationship

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Present Value of a Single Amount

• Present value is the current dollar value of a

future amount—the amount of money that would
have to be invested today at a given interest rate
over a specified period to equal the future amount.
• It is based on the idea that a dollar today is worth
more than a dollar tomorrow.
• Discounting cash flows is the process of finding
present values; the inverse of compounding
interest.
• The discount rate is often also referred to as the
opportunity cost, the discount rate, the required
return, or the cost of capital.

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Present Value of a Single Amount: The
Equation for Present Value
The present value, PV, of some future amount, FVn, to
be received n periods from now, assuming an interest
rate (or opportunity cost) of r, is calculated as
follows:

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Present Value of a Single Amount: The
Equation for Future Value
Pam Valenti wishes to find the present value of
$1,700 that will be received 8 years from now. Pa
m’s opportunity cost is 8%.

PV = $1,700/(1 + 0.08)8 = $1,700/1.85093 = $918.46

This analysis can be depicted on a time line as

follows:

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Figure 5.5
Present Value Relationship

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Annuities

An annuity is a stream of equal periodic cash flows,

over a specified time period. These cash flows can be
inflows of returns earned on investments or outflows
of funds invested to earn future returns.
– An ordinary (deferred) annuity is an annuity for which
the cash flow occurs at the end of each period
– An annuity due is an annuity for which the cash flow
occurs at the beginning of each period.
– An annuity due will always be greater than an otherwise
equivalent ordinary annuity because interest will
compound for an additional period.

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Personal Finance Example

Fran Abrams is choosing which of two annuities to

receive. Both are 5-year $1,000 annuities; annuity A is
an ordinary annuity, and annuity B is an annuity due.
Fran has listed the cash flows for both annuities as
shown in Table 5.1 on the following slide.

Note that the amount of both annuities total $5,000.

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Table 5.1 Comparison of Ordinary Annuity and
Annuity Due Cash Flows ($1,000, 5 Years)

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Finding the Future Value of an Ordinary
Annuity
• You can calculate the future value of an ordinary
annuity that pays an annual cash flow equal to CF
by using the following equation:

• As before, in this equation r represents the interest

rate and n represents the number of payments in
the annuity (or equivalently, the number of years
over which the annuity is spread).

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Personal Finance Example

Fran Abrams wishes to determine how much money she

will have at the end of 5 years if he chooses annuity A, the
ordinary annuity and it earns 7% annually. Annuity A is
depicted graphically below:

This analysis can be depicted on a time line as follows:

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Finding the Present Value of an Ordinary
Annuity
• You can calculate the present value of an ordinary
annuity that pays an annual cash flow equal to CF
by using the following equation:

• As before, in this equation r represents the interest

rate and n represents the number of payments in
the annuity (or equivalently, the number of years
over which the annuity is spread).

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Finding the Present Value of an Ordinary
Annuity (cont.)
Braden Company, a small producer of plastic toys, wants
to determine the most it should pay to purchase a
particular annuity. The annuity consists of cash flows of
$700 at the end of each year for 5 years. The firm requires
the annuity to provide a minimum return of 8%.
This situation can be depicted on a time line as follows:

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Table 5.2 Long Method for Finding the
Present Value of an Ordinary Annuity

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Finding the Future Value of an Annuity
Due
• You can calculate the present value of an annuity
due that pays an annual cash flow equal to CF by
using the following equation:

• As before, in this equation r represents the interest

rate and n represents the number of payments in
the annuity (or equivalently, the number of years
over which the annuity is spread).

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Personal Finance Example

Fran Abrams now wishes to choose between an ordinary annuity

and an annuity due, both offering similar terms except the
timing of cash flows. We have already calculated the value of the
ordinary annuity, but need to calculate the value of an annuity
due.

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Personal Finance Example (cont.)

Future value of ordinary Future value of annuity

annuity due
$5,705.74 $6,153.29

The future value of an annuity due is always higher

than the future value of an ordinary annuity.

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Finding the Present Value of an Annuity
Due
• You can calculate the present value of an ordinary
annuity that pays an annual cash flow equal to CF
by using the following equation:

• As before, in this equation r represents the interest

rate and n represents the number of payments in
the annuity (or equivalently, the number of years
over which the annuity is spread).

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Finding the Present Value of a Perpetuity

• A perpetuity is an annuity with an infinite

life, providing continual annual cash flow.
• If a perpetuity pays an annual cash flow of
CF, starting one year from now, the present
value of the cash flow stream is

PV = CF ÷ r

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Personal Finance Example

Ross Clark wishes to endow a chair in finance at his

alma mater. The university indicated that it requires
$200,000 per year to support the chair, and the
endowment would earn 10% per year. To determine
the amount Ross must give the university to fund the
chair, we must determine the present value of a
$200,000 perpetuity discounted at 10%.

PV = $200,000 ÷ 0.10 = $2,000,000

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Future Value of a Mixed Stream

Shrell Industries, a cabinet manufacturer, expects to

receive the following mixed stream of cash flows over
the next 5 years from one of its small customers.

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Future Value of a Mixed Stream

If the firm expects to earn at least 8% on its

investments, how much will it accumulate by the end
of year 5 if it immediately invests these cash flows
when they are received?
This situation is depicted on the following time line.

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Present Value of a Mixed Stream

Frey Company, a shoe manufacturer, has been

offered an opportunity to receive the following mixed
stream of cash flows over the next 5 years.

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Present Value of a Mixed Stream

If the firm must earn at least 9% on its investments,

what is the most it should pay for this opportunity?
This situation is depicted on the following time line.

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Compounding Interest More Frequently
Than Annually
• Compounding more frequently than once a year
results in a higher effective interest rate because
you are earning on interest on interest more
frequently.
• As a result, the effective interest rate is greater
than the nominal (annual) interest rate.
• Furthermore, the effective rate of interest will
increase the more frequently interest is
compounded.

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Table 5.3 Future Value from Investing $100 at
8% Interest Compounded Semiannually over 24
Months (2 Years)

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Table 5.4 Future Value from Investing $100 at
8% Interest Compounded Quarterly over 24
Months (2 Years)

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Table 5.5 Future Value at the End of Years 1 and
2 from Investing $100 at 8% Interest, Given
Various Compounding Periods

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Compounding Interest More Frequently
Than Annually (cont.)
A general equation for compounding more frequently
than annually

Recalculate the example for the Fred Moreno example

assuming (1) semiannual compounding and (2)
quarterly compounding.

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Continuous Compounding

• Continuous compounding involves the

compounding of interest an infinite number of times
per year at intervals of microseconds.
• A general equation for continuous compounding

where e is the exponential function.

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Personal Finance Example

Find the value at the end of 2 years (n = 2) of Fred

Moreno’s $100 deposit (PV = $100) in an account
paying 8% annual interest (r = 0.08) compounded
continuously.

FV2 (continuous compounding) = $100  e0.08  2

= $100  2.71830.16
= $100  1.1735 = $117.35

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Nominal and Effective Annual Rates of
Interest
• The nominal (stated) annual rate is the
contractual annual rate of interest charged by a
lender or promised by a borrower.
• The effective (true) annual rate (EAR) is the
annual rate of interest actually paid or earned.
• In general, the effective rate > nominal rate
whenever compounding occurs more than once per
year

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Personal Finance Example

Fred Moreno wishes to find the effective annual rate

associated with an 8% nominal annual rate (r = 0.08)
when interest is compounded (1) annually (m = 1);
(2) semiannually (m = 2); and (3) quarterly (m = 4).

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Special Applications of Time Value: Deposits
Needed to Accumulate a Future Sum

The following equation calculates the annual cash payment (CF)

that we’d have to save to achieve a future value (FVn):

Suppose you want to buy a house 5 years from now, and you
estimate that an initial down payment of $30,000 will be
required at that time. To accumulate the $30,000, you will wish
to make equal annual end-of-year deposits into an account
paying annual interest of 6 percent.

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Personal Finance Example

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Special Applications of Time Value: Loan
Amortization
• Loan amortization is the determination of the
equal periodic loan payments necessary to provide
a lender with a specified interest return and to
repay the loan principal over a specified period.
• The loan amortization process involves finding the
future payments, over the term of the loan, whose
present value at the loan interest rate equals the
amount of initial principal borrowed.
• A loan amortization schedule is a schedule of
equal payments to repay a loan. It shows the
allocation of each loan payment to interest and
principal.

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Special Applications of Time Value: Loan
Amortization (cont.)
• The following equation calculates the equal periodic loan
payments (CF) necessary to provide a lender with a specified
interest return and to repay the loan principal (PV) over a
specified period:

• Say you borrow $6,000 at 10 percent and agree to make

equal annual end-of-year payments over 4 years. To find the
size of the payments, the lender determines the amount of a
4-year annuity discounted at 10 percent that has a present
value of $6,000.

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Personal Finance Example

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Table 5.6 Loan Amortization Schedule
($6,000 Principal, 10% Interest, 4-Year
Repayment Period)

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Special Applications of Time Value:
Finding Interest or Growth Rates
• It is often necessary to calculate the compound
annual interest or growth rate (that is, the annual
rate of change in values) of a series of cash flows.
• The following equation is used to find the interest
rate (or growth rate) representing the increase in
value of some investment between two time
periods.

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Personal Finance Example

Ray Noble purchased an investment four years ago

for $1,250. Now it is worth $1,520. What compound
annual rate of return has Ray earned on this
investment? Plugging the appropriate values into
Equation 5.20, we have:

r = ($1,520 ÷ $1,250)(1/4) – 1 = 0.0501 = 5.01% per

year

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