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- PRESENT VALUE OF AN ANNUITY
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- The PRESENT VALUE of an annuity is
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- the single amount which invested now
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- would have a compound amount the same
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- as the annuity at the end of the term.
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- At the time one borrows money, the
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- present value is exactly the amount of
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- the loan. At any time later, the
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- present value is the single amount
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- which pays the loan off.
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- PROBLEM: You borrow $10,000 at an
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- APR of 15% for 48 months. How much do
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- you still owe on the note just AFTER
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- the 24th payment?
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- SOLUTION: First use the LOADSTAR
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- AMORTIZATION PROGRAM on this disk to
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- determine that the monthly payment is
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- $278.31.
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- The payoff just after the 24th
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- payment is the present value of the
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- remaining 24 payments. Use option two
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- of the program to find that the payoff
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- is $5739.93.
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- The amount $5739.93 is the amount on
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- the day that the 24th payment was made
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- and after the 24th payment was made.
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- It is NOT the amount of the payoff on
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- the day that the 25th payment is due.
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- If you wait say 15 days after the
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- 24th payment, then to pay the loan
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- off, the amount of the payoff would be
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- $5739.93 plus 15 days interest on
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- $5739.93.
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- If you want to run the LOADSTAR
- \oad"amortization",8
- AMORTIZATION PROGRAM now, press "\".
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- Al Vekovius
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