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investment appraisal

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  • This topic has 5 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 3 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • December 15, 2014 at 5:04 pm #220659
    winters
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    Sir can you please explain me this question and show me its working please?

    Q)If a single sum of $12,000 is invested at 8% per annum with interest compounded quarterly, what is the amount to which the principal will have grown by the end of year three?(approximately)

    December 16, 2014 at 9:21 am #220690
    John Moffat
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    The interest is 8/4 = 2% every 3 months.

    Three years is 12 quarters.

    So it will have grown to 12,000 x 1.02^12

    October 25, 2015 at 2:59 pm #278871
    Anonymous
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    Hi can anyone help me to do this sum pls

    if a single sum of $12000 is invested at 8% per annum with interest compounded quarterly, what is the amount to which the principal will have grown by the end of the year 3.

    thanks

    October 25, 2015 at 6:34 pm #278908
    John Moffat
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    If you ask in the Ask the Tutor Forum, then it is me who will answer (not ‘anyone’ !!!) 🙂

    And why on earth have you asked exactly the same question as the first one in this thread – which I have already answered above ???!!!!!!

    If interest is quarterly, then the interest is 2% each quarter.

    So after 12 quarters (3 years x 4 quarters) it will have grown to 12000 x (1.02^12).

    (I do suggest that you watch our free lectures – they are a complete course covering everything you need to be able to pass F2 well.)

    November 15, 2022 at 2:14 pm #671503
    disha.pereira
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    why do we follow the (1+Annual rate)^(1/no. of periods) – 1 formula over here?

    November 16, 2022 at 8:47 am #671578
    John Moffat
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    But we don’t do as you have written. We do it as explained in my previous reply.

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