FM Unit IV

  

This assignment will allow you to demonstrate the following objectives:

· Calculate the annual payment on a loan using the present value of an annuity.

· Use discounting to determine the present value of an annuity.

· Calculate the future value of an annuity and periodic annuity payments.

· Determine the present value of a bond.

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1. Your supervisor has tasked you with evaluating several loans related to a new expansion project. Using the PVIFA table (table 9.4 in the textbook), determine the annual payment on a $400,000, 8% business loan from a commercial bank that is to be amortized over a five-year period. Show your work. Does this payment seem reasonable? Explain.

2. Dan is considering borrowing $500,000 to purchase a new condo. Based on that information, answer the following questions. Show all work. 

a) Calculate the monthly payment needed to amortize an 8% fixed-rate 30-year mortgage loan.

b) Calculate the monthly amortization payment if the loan in (a.) was for 15 years instead.

c) In a few sentences, explain the effect of a smaller loan period. How does it influence the monthly payment and interest?

3 Use a financial calculator or computer software program to answer the following questions:

a) Melanie is trying to save money for retirement and has a future goal of $600,000 at the end of 20 years. Determine the present value of her goal using a discount rate of 11%. 

b) How would the present value change if the $600,000 is to be received at the end of 15 years instead? Explain the impact and show your work?

4. Your friend Anne is planning to invest $400 each year for four years and will earn a rate of 6 percent per year.

a) Determine the future value of this annuity due if her first $400 is invested now. Show your work.

b) What is the difference between an annuity due and an ordinary annuity? Explain.

5. Jimmy has a bond with a $1,000 face value and a coupon rate of 9.5% paid semiannually. It has a five-year life. 

a) If investors are willing to accept a 14 percent rate of return on bonds of similar quality, what is the present value or worth of this bond? Show your work. 

b) What is the impact of paying interest semi-annually rather than annually? Explain.