Suppose you are going to receive $8,000 per year for 10 years. The appropriate interest rate is

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Suppose you are going to receive $8,000 per year for 10 years. The appropriate interest rate is 9 percent.
a. What is the present value of the payments if they are in the form of an ordinary annuity?
What
is the present value if the payments are an annuity due?
b. Suppose you plan to invest the payments for 10 years. What is the future value if the payments are an ordinary annuity? What if the payments are an annuity due?
c. Which has the highest present value, the ordinary annuity or the annuity due? Which has the
highest future value? Will this always be true?
Annuity
An annuity is a series of equal payment made at equal intervals during a period of time. In other words annuity is a contract between insurer and insurance company in which insurer make a lump-sum payment or a series of payment and, in return,...
Future Value
Future value (FV) is the value of a current asset at a future date based on an assumed rate of growth. The future value (FV) is important to investors and financial planners as they use it to estimate how much an investment made today will be worth...
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Corporate Finance Core Principles and Applications

ISBN: 978-0077905200

3rd edition

Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford

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