10. Time Value of Money

What is the name for an infinite stream of constant payments occurring at regular time intervals?

What is the formula to calculate the monthly payment (PMT) on a 20-year loan with principal amount $P$, annual interest rate $r$ (compounded monthly), and total number of monthly payments $n$?

Which of the following will increase the future value of an annuity, assuming all other factors remain constant?

A 1-year loan with a 5\% APR will have the most interest charged with which type of compounding?

Which financial function calculates the total amount of interest paid over a specific number of payments?

Understanding that money grows over time explains why you need to:

Approximately what annual interest rate, compounded annually, is needed to double an investment in 4 years?

The future value of an ordinary annuity table is used when calculating:

In order to discount multiple cash flows to the present, one would use:

Future value is the ______ value of an investment at some time in the future.

What is the future value (FV) of an ordinary annuity where $500 is invested at the end of each year for 20 years at an annual interest rate of 10%? (Use the formula: $FV = PMT \times \frac{(1 + r)^n - 1}{r}$, where $PMT = 500$, $r = 0.10$, $n = 20$.)

If John takes out a 30-year mortgage of \$200,000 at an annual interest rate of 5\% compounded monthly, how much total interest will he pay over the life of the mortgage?

Which equation best represents the calculation of future value (\(FV\)) using simple interest?

The interest rate on a savings account determines:

How long (in years and months) will it take for an investment to double at an annual interest rate of 6\% compounded monthly?