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Repayment of loan

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  • This topic has 3 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 6 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • April 19, 2019 at 7:01 am #513472
    alikhakar
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    A loan of $100000 is taken for five years at 9% interest p.a. payable along with principal in five years time. in bpp text its given that annual payment will be 100000÷3.890 (annuity factor) = $25707

    My ques is ..is this $25707 really paid by company every year or it is just for accounting purpose

    And real payment will be 9% interest and 1/5 of principal i.e 20000.
    In 1st year 9000 + 20000= 29000
    In 2nd year 9% of 80000 i.e 7200+ 20000 = 27200 and so on …
    What will be the real amount which will be paid by the company ..25707 or like what i have written above?

    April 19, 2019 at 7:35 am #513479
    John Moffat
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    This is nothing to do with financial accounting – that is of no relevance to Paper FM.

    However the loan is repaid, then the present value of the repayments discounted at 9% will always equal the amount borrowed of 100,000. (The only reason they end up paying back more than 9% is because of the interest at 9%, and discounting at 9% is effectively ‘removing’ the interest). (Make up some figures yourself and then discount – you will always end up with a PV of 100,000).

    Your description of ‘real payment’ is not repaying an equal amount each year – your first two payments are different!!

    If they pay a total of X each year for 5 years, then the PV of the repayments will be equal to X x (the 5 year annuity factor at 9%) and this must be equal to 100,000. Therefore X, the annual payment, will be 100,000 divided by 3.890.

    April 19, 2019 at 12:23 pm #513502
    alikhakar
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    Sir do you mean that fixed annual payment of 25707 uncludes both interest as well as primcipal amount?
    Thanks

    April 19, 2019 at 3:41 pm #513515
    John Moffat
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    Yes – that is what the question says is required 🙂

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