Determining the Future Value, Hence Total 4.3294 $4,329,40 There Is No Interest on This Deposit
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JWPR026-Fabozzi c55 June 24, 2008 21:59 598 Mathematics of Finance The notion that money has a time value is one of the most DETERMINING THE basic concepts in investment analysis. Making decisions today regarding future cash flows requires understand- FUTURE VALUE ing that the value of money does not remain the same Suppose you deposit $1,000 into a savings account at the throughout time. Surety Savings Bank and you are promised 10% interest A dollar today is worth less than a dollar some time in per period. At the end of one period you would have the future for two reasons: $1,100. This $1,100 consists of the return of your principal amount of the investment (the $1,000) and the interest Reason 1: Cash flows occurring at different points in time or return on your investment (the $100). Let’s label these have different values relative to any one point in time. values: One dollar one year from now is not as valuable as r one dollar today. After all, you can invest a dollar today $1,000 is the value today, the present value, PV. r and earn interest so that the value it grows to next year $1,100 is the value at the end of one period, the future is greater than the one dollar today.This means we have value, FV. r to take into account the time value of money to quantify 10% is the rate interest is earned in one period, the in- the relation between cash flows at different points in terest rate, i. time. Reason 2: Cash flows are uncertain. To get to the future value from the present value: Expected cash flows may not materialize. Uncer- tainty stems from the nature of forecasts of the timing FV = PV + (PV × i) and/or the amount of cash flows. We do not know for ↑↑ certain when, whether, or how much cash flows will principal interest be in the future. This uncertainty regarding future cash flows must somehow be taken into account in assessing This is equivalent to: the value of an investment. FV = PV(1 + i) Translating a current value into its equivalent future value is referred to as compounding. Translating a future In terms of our example, cash flow or value into its equivalent value in a prior period is referred to as discounting. This chapter outlines FV = $1,000 + ($1,000 × 0.10) = $1,000(1 + 0.10) the basic mathematical techniques used in compounding = and discounting. $1,100 Suppose someone wants to borrow $100 today and promises to pay back the amount borrowed in one month. If the $100 interest is withdrawn at the end of the pe- Would the repayment of only the $100 be fair? Probably riod, the principal is left to earn interest at the 10% rate. not. There are two things to consider. First, if the lender Whenever you do this, you earn simple interest.Itissim- didn’t lend the $100, what could he or she have done with ple because it repeats itself in exactly the same way from it? Second, is there a chance that the borrower may not one period to the next as long as you take out the interest pay back the loan? So, when considering lending money, at the end of each period and the principal remains the we must consider the opportunity cost (that is, what could same. If, on the other hand, both the principal and the have been earned or enjoyed), as well as the uncertainty interest are left on deposit at the Surety Savings Bank, associated with getting the money back as promised. the balance earns interest on the previously paid interest, Let’s say that someone is willing to lend the money, referred to as compound interest. Earning interest on inter- but that they require repayment of the $100 plus some est is called compounding because the balance at any time compensation for the opportunity cost and any uncertainty is a combination of the principal, interest on principal, the loan will be repaid as promised. The amount of the and interest on accumulated interest (or simply, interest on loan, the $100, is the principal. The compensation required interest). for allowing someone else to use the $100 is the interest. If you compound interest for one more period in our Looking at this same situation from the perspective of example, the original $1,000 grows to $1,210.00: time and value, the amount that you are willing to lend today is the loan’s present value. The amount that you FV = Principal + First period interest + Second period require to be paid at the end of the loan period is the interest loan’s future value. Therefore, the future period’s value is = $1,000.00 + ($1,000.00 × 0.10) + ($1,100.00 × 0.10) comprised of two parts: = $1,200.00 Future value = Present value + Interest The present value of the investment is $1,000, the interest The interest is compensation for the use of funds for a spe- earned over two years is $210, and the future value of the cific period. It consists of (1) compensation for the length investment after two years is $1,210. of time the money is borrowed and (2) compensation for The relation between the present value and the future the risk that the amount borrowed will not be repaid ex- value after two periods, breaking out the second pe- actly as set forth in the loan agreement. riod interest into interest on the principal and interest JWPR026-Fabozzi c55 June 24, 2008 21:59 MATHEMATICAL TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR FINANCIAL MODELING AND ANALYSIS 599 on interest, is: $3,000 Principal Interest on principal FV = PV + (PV × i) + (PV × i)(PV × i × i) ↑↑ ↑ ↑ $2,500 Interest on interest Principal First Second Second $2,000 period’s period’s period’s interest interest on interest on on the first $1,500 the principal the principal period’s interest or, collecting the PVs from each term and applying a bit $1,000 of elementary algebra, Balance in the account $500 FV = PV(1 + 2i + i 2) = PV(1 + i)2 $ $- The balance in the account two years from now, 1,210, is 01234 5678910 comprised of three parts: Number of compound periods 1. The principal, $1,000. Figure 55.1 The Value of $1,000 Invested 10 Years in an 2. Interest on principal, $100 in the first period plus $100 Account that Pays 10% Compounded Interest per Year in the second period. 3. Interest on interest, 10% of the first period’s interest, or $ 10. ment of $1,000 is 10%—the value of the savings account To determine the future value with compound interest balance increased 10% per year. for more than two periods, we follow along the same lines: We could also express the appreciation in our savings balance in terms of a return. A return is the income on an FV = PV(1 + i)N (55.1) investment, generally stated as a change in the value of the investment over each period divided by the amount The value of N is the number of compounding periods, at the investment at the beginning of the period. We could where a compounding period is the unit of time after also say that our investment of $1,000 provides an average which interest is paid at the rate i.Aperiodmaybeany annual return of 10% per year. The average annual return length of time: a minute, a day, a month, or a year. The im- is not calculated by taking the change in value over the en- portant thing is to make sure the same compounding pe- tire 10-year period ($2,593.70 − $1,000) and dividing it by riod is reflected throughout the problem being analyzed. $1,000. This would produce an arithmetic average return of + N The term “(1 i) ”isreferredtoasthecompoundfac- 159.37% over the 10-year period, or 15.937% per year. But tor. It is the rate of exchange between present dollars and the arithmetic average ignores the process of compound- dollars N compounding periods into the future. Equation ing. The correct way of calculating the average annual (55.1) is the basic valuation equation—the foundation of return is to use a geometric average return: financial mathematics. It relates a value at one point in time to a value at another point in time, considering the N FV compounding of interest. i = − 1 (55.2) PV The relation between present and future values for a principal of $1,000 and interest of 10% per period through which is a rearrangement of equation (55.1) Using the 10 compounding periods is shown graphically in Figure values from the example, 55.1. For example, the value of $1,000, earning interest at $ / 10% per period, is 2,593.70 ten periods into the future: $2,593.70 $2,593.70 1 10 i = 10 − 1 = FV = $1,000 (1 + 0.10)10 = $1,000 (2.5937) = $2,593.70 $1,000.00 $1,000.00 −1 = 1.100 − 1 = 10% As you can see in this figure the $2,593.70 balance in the account at the end of 10 periods is comprised of three Therefore, the annual return on the investment— parts: sometimes referred to as the compound average annual re- 1. The principal, $1,000. turn or the true return—is 10% per year. 2. Interest on the principal of $1,000, which is $100 per Here is another example for calculating a future value.