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Lecture 4 Summary (1)

LO.f: Demonstrate the use of a timeline in modeling and solving time value of money problems.
You can solve time value of money questions by showing cash flows on a timeline such as the one shown
below:

Say you will receive $150 at the end of Year 4, Year 5, and Year 6 and you want to calculate the PV at
time 0. You can treat the three payments as an annuity and calculate the PV at the end of year 3. This
value, assuming a 10% discount rate, is: $373.03. We can then further discount $373.03 to time 0.
Plug: FV = $373.03, N = 3, I = 10%, PMT = 0. Compute PV. You should get $280.26.

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