The Time Value of Money
The Time Value of Money
The Time Value of Money
OUTLINE
• Time Lines and Notations
• Future Value of a Single Amount
• Present Value of a Single Amount
• Future Value of an Annuity
• Present Value of an Annuity
• Present Value of a Perpetuity
• Intra-year Compounding and Discounting
WHY TIME VALUE
A rupee today is more valuable than a rupee a year hence.
Why ?
• Preference for current consumption over future
consumption
• earns a rate of return
• Inflation
Many financial problems involve cash flows occurring at
different points of time. For evaluating such cash flows, an
explicit consideration of time value of money is required
TIME LINE
Part A
0 1 2 3 4 5
12% 12% 12% 12% 12%
Part B
0 1 2 3 4 5
12% 12% 12% 12% 12%
0 1 2 3 4 5
%
0 1 2 3 4 5
NOTATION
PV : Present value
FVn : Future value n years hence
Ct : Cash flow occurring at the end of year t
A : A stream of constant periodic cash flow over a
given time
r : Interest rate or discount rate
g : Expected growth rate in cash flows
n : Number of periods over which the cash flows
occur.
FUTURE VALUE OF A SINGLE AMOUNT
Rs
First year: Principal at the beginning 1,000
Interest for the year
(Rs.1,000 x 0.10) 100
Principal at the end 1,100 [1000(1+0.10)]
FORMULA
FUTURE VALUE = PRESENT VALUE (1+r)n
VALUE OF FVIFr,n FOR VARIOUS
COMBINATIONS OF r AND n
n/r 6% 8% 10 % 12 % 14 %
2 1.124 1.166 1.210 1.254 1.300
4 1.262 1.361 1.464 1.574 1.689
6 1.419 1.587 1.772 1.974 2.195
8 1.594 1.851 2.144 2.476 2.853
10 1.791 2.518 2.594 3.106 3.707
PRESENT VALUE OF A SINGLE AMOUNT
a Interest is calculated by multiplying the beginning loan balance by the interest rate.
b. Principal repayment is equal to annual instalment minus interest.
* Due to rounding off error a small balance is shown
EQUATED MONTHLY INSTALMENT
The above formula can be used when the growth rate is less than the discount rate
(g < r) as well as when the growth rate is more than the discount rate (g > r).
However, it does not work when the growth rate is equal to the discount rate
(g = r) – in this case, the present value is simply equal to n A.
PRESENT VALUE OF A GROWING ANNUITY
For example, suppose you have the right to harvest a teak plantation
for the next 20 years over which you expect to get 100,000 cubic feet
of teak per year. The current price per cubic foot of teak is Rs 500,
but it is expected to increase at a rate of 8 percent per year. The
discount rate is 15 percent. The present value of the teak that you
can harvest from the teak forest can be determined as follows:
1.0820
1–
1.1520
PV of teak = Rs 500 x 100,000 (1.08)
0.15 – 0.08
= Rs.551,736,683
ANNUITY DUE
A A … A A
Ordinary
annuity
0 1 2 n–1 n
A A A … A
Annuity
due
0 1 2 n–1 n
Thus,
Annuity due value = Ordinary annuity value (1 + r)
This applies to both present and future values
PRESENT VALUE OF PERPETUITY
A
Present value of perpetuity =
r
Ct = PV × (1 + r)t
C1 = $1 × 1.121 = $1.1200
1+EAR = (1+r/m)m
EAR = (1+r/m)m –1
EAR = effective rate of interest
r = nominal rate of interest/APR
m = frequency of compounding per year
Example : r = 8 percent, m=4
EAR = (1+.08/4)4 – 1 = 0.0824
= 8.24 percent
Nominal and Effective Rates of Interest
Effective Rate %
Nominal Annual Semi-annual Quarterly Monthly
Rate % Compounding Compounding Compounding Compounding
8 8.00 8.16 8.24 8.30
12 12.00 12.36 12.55 12.68
Continuous Compounding
The general formula for the future value of an
investment compounded continuously over many
periods can be written as:
FV = PV × ert
Where
PV is the initial investment,
r is the APR or nominal rate,
t is the number of years, and
e is a transcendental number approximately equal
to 2.718.
Use of Excel Spreadsheet Time value calculations can be
easily done using a spreadsheet. In Excel, there are
customised notations and functions for the various time
value parameters as shown below:
Parameter Notation/ Built in Formula in Excel
Symbol
Present value PV =PV(rate,nper,pmt,[fv],[type])
Future value FV =FV(rate,nper,pmt,[pv],[type])
No. of continuous NPER =NPER(rate,pmt,pv,[fv],[type])
successive periods