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Calculating Equivalent Annual Cost of Discount

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  • October 22, 2023 at 7:21 pm #693837
    Zhu3
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    Hi Sir,
    Came across this question in the kaplan study text. I was unable to understand the solution provided by the book, would appreciate if the solution is simplified and explained in detail especially the step 2 & 3.
    The question and the solution provided by the Book is below

    Q) Work out the equivalent annual cost of the following credit terms. 1.75% discount for payments within 3 weeks. Alternatively, full payment must be made within 8 weeks of the invoice date. Assume there are 50 weeks in a year. Hint, consider a $100 invoice.

    A)
    Step 1 – Work out the discount available and the amount due if the discount were taken.
    Discount available on;
    $100 invoice = 1.75%*100 = 1.75 dollars. Amount due after discount is;
    100*1.75 = 98.25.

    Step 2 – the effective interest rate cost of not taking the discount is;
    1.75 / 98.25 = 0.0178
    for an 8-3 = 5 week period.

    Step 3 – calculate the equivalent annual rate. There are 10, 5-week periods in a year.
    The equivalent interest rate is;
    ((1 + 0.18) ^ 10)- 1 = 0.195 or 19.5%

    October 22, 2023 at 9:10 pm #693842
    IAW3005
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    I would do this as

    (1 + (Disc/Inv-Disc)) ^(normal time/disc in time) – 1

    The invoice is 100 so the disc is 1.75 & amount left 98.25
    The normal time is 50 weeks (in a year for this question) the reduction in time is that it is dropping from 8 weeks to 3 weeks so it’s 5

    (1 + 1.75/98.25) ^ (50/5) = -1
    1.017811705 ^ 10 = -1
    = 1.193 – 1
    = 0.193
    19.3%

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