D076 Finance Skills for Managers Terms and questions for module 5

Ordinary annuities - a series of equal payments made at the end of consecutive periods over a fixed length of time Annuities due - a series of equal payments made at the beginning of consecutive periods Perpetuities - a constant stream of identical cash flows that continues forever Compounding - finding a future value given a present value Discounting - finding a present value given a future value. Time value of money - the idea that money that is available at the present time is worth more than the same amount in the future Annuities - equally spaced cash flows of equal amounts. Lolo invested $30,000 today in an account that gives 3% interest. Starting one year from today, she will be able to pull out little over $3,500 a year. What does the $30,000 represent? - Present value