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    Present Value: Accumulated, Discounted, and Compounded Interest

    a. What is present value? b. What is the present value of $1,000 to be received in five years discounted back to the present at six percent? c. What is the future value of $1,000 invested for 10 years at ten percent interest compounded annually? d. What is the accumulated value of $1,000 received annually for five yea

    Tuition Payment Using Bank Account Annually Compounded Interest

    Tuition is $10,000 per year for 4 years starting next year (that is, I will need to withdraw the first $10,000 on year from today). A deposit in a bank will be made today; bank will pay 7% interest, compounded annually, a sum of money that is sufficient to provide the 4 payments of $10,000 each. a) how large will the deposit

    Present Values and Cash Flows

    To find the present value of an uneven series of cash flows, you must find the PVs of the individual cash flows and then sum them. Annuity procedures can never be of use, even if some of the cash flows constitute an annuity (for example, $100 each for Years 3, 4, 5, and 6), because the entire series is not an annuity. Is this st

    Amount of Each Annuity Payment

    Say I have a 5-year ordinary annuity with present value of $1,000, and the interest rate is 10%, what is the amount of each annuity payment?

    Choice between four retirement annuities - Jill Chew

    P3-41. Jill Chew wishes to choose the best of four immediate retirement annuities available to her. In each case, in exchange for paying a single premium today, she will receive equal annual end-of-year cash benefits for a specified number of years. She considers the annuities to be equally risky and is not concerned about their

    Monthly Payments to Assume Repair Costs Will Be Covered

    P3-29. Mary Sullivan, capital outlay manager for Waxy Widgets, has been instructed to establish a contingency fund to cover the expenses over the next two years (24 months) associated with repairing defective widgets from a new production process. Waxy Widgets' controller wants to make equal monthly cash deposits into this fund.

    Present Value of Funding a Future Annual Annuity

    P3-28. Determine the annual payment required to fund a future annual annuity of $12,000 per year. You will fund this future liability over the next five years, with the first payment to occur one year from today. The future $12,000 liability will last for four years, with the first payment to occur seven years from today. If you

    Equivalent Annual Cost: The Oklahoma Electric Company (OEC) is currently evaluating two different options to control the emissions from their coal-burning electric generation facility in Dewar.

    The Oklahoma Electric Company (OEC) is currently evaluating two different options to control the emissions from their coal-burning electric generation facility in Dewar. A filtration system will cost $12 million to install and $700,000 per year to operate. The filtration system, which will have a salvage value of zero at the end

    End-of-year cash flow

    P3-15. For the following questions, assume an end-of-year cash flow of $250 and a 10 percent discount rate. a. What is the present value of a single cash flow? b. What is the present value of a 5-year annuity? c. What is the present value of a 10-year annuity? d. What is the present value of a 100-year annuity? e. What is

    Assume that you just won the state lottery.

    P3-14. Assume that you just won the state lottery. Your prize can be taken either in the form of $40,000 at the end of each of the next 25 years (i.e., $1 million over 25 years) or as a lump sum of $500,000 paid immediately. a. If you expect to be able to earn 5 percent annually on your investments over the next 25 years, ign

    Fisher Effect, Time Value of Money

    Please see the attached file. 1) Fisher Effect Year Expected rate of inflation Observed rate of inflation Expected real interest rate 2008 5% XX 1.5% 2007 4% 3.5% 3% a. Define the Fisher Effect and explain why expected inflation should have an impact on the nominal rate of interest? b. Today is January 1, 2008. What

    NPV and IRR : explained

    NPV/IRR. Consider projects A and B. Cash Flows, Dollars Project C0 C1 C2 NPV at 10% A -30,000 21,000 21,000 +$6,446 B -50,000 33,000 33,000 + 7,273 Calculate IRRs for A and B. Which project does the IRR rule suggest is best? Which project is really best?

    Comprehensive Depreciation Computation - Sheryl Crow Corporation

    (Comprehensive Depreciation Computations) Sheryl Crow Corporation, a manufacturer of steel products, began operations on October 1, 2006. The accounting department of Crow has started the fixed-asset and depreciation schedule presented on page 563. You have been asked to assist in completing this schedule. In addition to ascert

    Bond Price, Future Value of Investment, Annuity

    1. Today is t=0. Consider the following bonds in which the first coupon payment (if any) will begin in t=1. Bond.....................Coupon Rate (Annual payment).................Maturity (years) A..............................................0%....................................................3 B...................

    Present Value of an Annuity

    (Present value of an annuity) What is the present value of the following annuities? a. $2,500 a year for 10 years discounted back to the present at 7 percent b. $70 a year for 3 years discounted back to the present at 3 percent c. $280 a year for 7 years discounted back to the present at 6 percent d. $500 a year for 10

    Compound Annuity - Streams of Payments

    (Compound annuity) What is the accumulated sum of each of the following streams of payments? a. $500 a year for 10 years compounded annually at 5 percent b. $100 a year for 5 years compounded annually at 10 percent c. $35 a year for 7 years compounded annually at 7 percent d. $25 a year for 3 years compounded annually a

    PV of uncertain cash flows

    Question and answers are provided: But, Please Use a BA II calculator to solve. I need to learn how to solve with a BA II financial calculator. please list, step by step instructions. See Below: 9. PV of uncertain cash flows . A project with a 3-year life has the following probability distributions for possible end-o

    Saving for Retirement

    1. Assume that you are 40 years old and wish to retire at age 65. You expect to be able to average a 6% annual rate of interest on your savings over your lifetime (both prior to retirement and after retirement). You would like to save enough money to provide $8,000 per year beginning at age 66 in retirement income to supplement

    Finance: Calculating the Future Value of Annuity

    Need help solving the following problem: Deposited $3,000 at the end of each of the next 20 years into an account paying 10.5% interset, how much money will I have in 20 years, and have if I make deposits for 40 years?

    Amortizing Loan

    38. Amortizing Loan. Consider a 4-year amortizing loan. You borrow $1,000 initially, and repay it in four equal annual year- end payments. a. If the interest rate is 8 percent, show that the annual payment is $301.92. b. Fill in the following table, which shows how much of each payment is interest versus p

    High Dividends vs. High Capital Gains

    Question 1 Discuss a real world decision that you have analyzed (like a capital budgeting decision or security investment). Explain how you might now go about setting up the "investment decision." Question 2 If you were to purchase a stock, would you be looking for one that paid high dividends or high capital gains?

    Questions about Present and Future Value

    1. Future Value If you invest $9,000 today, how much will you have: a. In 2 years at 9 percent? b. In 7 years at 12 percent? c. In 25 years at 14 percent? d. In 25 years at 14 percent (compounded semiannually) 2. Present Value How much would you have to invest today to receive: a. $15,000 in 8 years at 10 percent? b.

    Return on Investing $9,000 Today

    Complete the following Problems from Foundations of Financial Management (11th ed.) Stanley B. Block and Geoffrey A. Hirt Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2005 Burr Ridge, IL Chapter 9 3. If you invest $9,000 today, how much will you have: a. In 2 years at 9 percent? b. In 7 years at 12 percent? c. In 25 years at 14 percen

    Stephanie must decide between two alternatives for the weekend

    See attachment. Stephanie must decide between two alternatives for the weekend: babysitting or yard work. If she baby sits, she will receive $40 and will incur $15 in food and snack costs. If she does yard work, she will receive $40 and will incur $3 in lawn mower gas and oil costs and $5 in snack costs. The amount to be rece

    Determinants of Interest Rates Questions

    1. Calculate the present value of $5,000 received five years from today if your investments pay: a. 6 percent compounded annually b. 8 percent compounded annually c. 10 percent compounded annually d. 10 percent compounded semi-annually e. 10 percent compounded quarterly What do your answers to these questions tell you