12. Buy on time or pay cash? Aa Aa You are going to make a substantial purchase. You have enough money to pay cash, but don't know if that's the way to make best use of your assets. Maybe you should take out an installment loan to make the purchase and invest the cash you would otherwise have used to pay for it Use the information provided to complete the following worksheet and analyze how the numbers work out most favorably for you. For simplicity, compounding is ignored in calculating both the cost of interest and interest earnings. Note Enter your dollar answers rounded to the nearest two cents and precede numbers that are less than zero (0) with a minus sign Buy on Time or Pay Cash Cost of Borrowing Terms of the loan a. Amount of the loan $10,000 b. Length of the loan (in years c. Monthly payment $322.70 2. Tota loan payments made per month months) 3. Less: Principal amount of the loan 4. Tota interest paid over life of loan 5. Tax considerations Is this a home equity loan? yes Do you itemize deductions on your federal tax return? yes 6. What federal tax bracket are you in? 0% 7. Taxes saved due to interest deductions 8. Total after-tax interest cost on the loan Cost of Paying cash 9. Annua interest earned on savings (3% x 10. Annual after-tax interest earnings 11. Total after-tax interest earnings over life of loan x years Net Cost of Borrowing 12. Difference in cost of borrowing versus cost of paying cash