Compound Interest
Compound Interest
Compound Interest
Based on the concept of time value of money and bound to the mechanism of
compound interest, it is often required to interrelate some of the following quantities:
P is the value or sum of money at a time denoted as the present.
F is the value or sum of money at a future time.
A is the series of consecutive, equal, end-of-period amounts of money.
n is the number of interest periods.
i is the interest rate.
The transformation multipliers (or time-value conversions) are called the Compound
Interest Factors" or the Engineering Economy Factors".
Compound Interest Factors
Discrete Cash Flow, Discrete Compounding
To Find
A
Given
F
Name of Factor
Compound Amount
Factor (single payment)
Present Worth Factor
(single payment)
Compound Amount
Factor (uniform series)
3
n1
Compound Interest Factors
Discrete Cash Flow, Discrete Compounding
To Find
P
Given
G
Name of Factor
PA///FPFPAA
,,i%
Table 1. Standard factor notations
n
%
n
n
%
AP///PPFAF,,,iii%
Table 4.2: Computations using standard notation
To find
F
given
A
factor
%
%
n
formula
P
F
nnP
A
/AP
,F/F
PP
A,i%
n
A/FA,i%
i
%
n
,n
F//P1,inn1in
SINGLE-PAYMENT COMPOUND
AMOUNT FACTOR (SPCAF)
F P
(S P C A F )
P = g ive n
0 1 2 3 4 n-2 n-1 n
F = ??
If you have $2000 now and invest it at 10%, how much will it be
?worth in 8 years
F = ??
i = 10 %
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
ye ars
2000
Solution
F =
??
i= 5 %
0 y e a rs
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
5
3 x1 0
5
m .u . 4 x10
5 m .u .
6 x 1 0 m .u .
P
F/
(SPPW F)
P= ??
0 1 2 3 4 n-2 n- 1 n
F = given
Example 3
i = 12 %
0 1 2 3 4 5
y e a rs
P = ??
(
0.
56
74
)
Compound Present Compound Present
Periods Amount Worth Amount Worth
Factor Factor Factor Factor
Note: this method might be obsolete as it requires lots of data tables. These tables are
formed using the simple formulae developed here in this lecture
UNIFORM-SERIES COMPOUND-
AMOUNT FACTOR (USCAF)
(U S C A F )
F= ??
0 1 2 3 4 n-2 n-1 n
A = g iv e n
Subtractin
Example 5
(S S F )
A = ??
n-2 n-1
F = g iv e n
n
Example
The future amount, F, is $1000000. The equal annual amount this student
must place in a sinking fund that grows to $1000000 in 45 years at 7%
annual interest