i need help on a Finance question regarding Future Value?
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if interest is compounded daily, don't forget to...\n\n1.  divide 5.16% by 365 to get the daily rate\n2.  use 30 days as your period "n"\n3.  don't use the avg daily balance.  you must use the initial principal balance at the beginning of the 30 day period.\n\ni haven't worked it out, but if your formula is correct, the future value will work.\n\nif you have a business calculator (preferrably from HP)\n\nPV = initial principal balance\ni = 5.16% divided by 365 days\nn = 30 days\n\nsolve for FV
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The equal, annual payment for years 24 - 40 would be $40.\n\nIt's a multi-step process. First you must find the present value of the security at the end of year 23 - which is $364.87. Then you can find the payment amount using the PMT formula in Excel. The rate =.08, the NPER=17 (number of periods), the PV=$364.87 (present value), the FV=0 (future value) and the type=0 (payment at end of period) for an answer of $40.00049067.
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Many approaches:\n\n1) Discount cash flow method. Work out all the projected free cash flows of the company and then do a dcf on it. The key is not in doing up the model - the key is in your assumptions (as in all models);\n\n2) Multiples - look for a listed company in a similar industry and use a EBITDA multiple to find out an approx value. Check yahoo finance - it is rather good for info finding;\n\n3) Asset valuation method - not as accurate as the above but add up all the assets of the company. Note that the sum may be worth more than each piece if all is functioning together well;\n\n4) replacement value - check out the market values of all the assets and value that. \n\n5) Net Asset Value - Assets minus liabilities for a really general ballpark figure. \n\nI generally use 1 & 2. 3-5 are just very general guides.
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the fundamental assumption is that the theoretical value should be the present value of all the future benefits that will be available by holding the security whether it is a bond or a share. as for the formulas ican giv u but u need to understand what those symbols mean.
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It all depends on the price you purchase it for. If you purchase 30-40% below market then you can make an instant profit. If you purchase close to market ; you should hold on to it for  few years then sell.
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10 times double, huh. Talk to a stock broker. Futures in food and gold are good but that's a pretty high goal to obtain. Good luck.
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I'm not sure exactly what you are asking, but the present value is calculated using either an interest rate that incorporates inflation if the cash flows are inflated cash flows, or a not if the cash flows are current dollars.\nIn other words...\nInflation will affect the value in the future, not the present.
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contact a stock broker or your bank, they should help you out with the documentation.\n\nlook at ratios such as P/E ratio and EPS mainly, and also read the investor prospectus as thoroughly as you can.\n\ninvesting in indices - will diversify away some risks - so look into that...
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What you are hoping to capture by buying a calendar spread is the decay of the first expiring option relative to the decay of the second. Read "Options as a Strategic Investment".\n\nA short term option loses its time value faster than a longer term option. So, if the decay on the longer is a penny a day...and the decay on the shorter option is 1/8 a day...you are capturing 11 1/2cents per day and protecting yourself in case of a big market move. Is it a given that you'll make money??? Absolutely not. Every time you think that, think to yourself "there are a million other people out there that have thot about this for at least 25 years...chances are I am not thinking anything original" !
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if it is as i understood\nyou borrow =$10 000\nits profit during one year =$10 000* 0.09 (9%)= $900\nafter one year you must pay= $10 000+$ 900=$10 000 * (1.09)\n\nsimilary for the second year =$10 000*(1.09)^2\nsimilary for the third year =$10 000*(1.09)^3\n\nafter ten years=$10 000*(1.09)^10=$23 673.6367\n\nThe rule F=P*(1+i)^n\nF:Future Value Of Money\nP:Present Value Of Money\ni:Interest Rate During Certain Period (e.g. one year)\nn:Number Of Periods (e.g. ten years)
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try http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RSH
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Phone the company/bank/building society you invested with and they should be able to help you.\n\nAlternatively, if you are invested in funds and know the unit holding, you could look up the price of the fund on the company website or in the FT.
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buy it, its only 13 cents. what do you have to lose. imagine it going back up. its going to go up no matter what in like 10 years. but if it crashes you wont lose much.
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Im sure its worth something.  If you would keep it for a while then the value would go up after he retires.  The longer you keep it the more value it will have.
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In theory, a stock's price should be equal to the present value of all of its future cash flows.  Anything that causes the cash flows to get bigger or smaller has an effect on price.  But given that cash flows don't change, the price can still change if the interest rate changes.\n\nLet's look at an example.  Suppose that you have a company that has paid all of its bills for the next year.  In one year, it gets a $100,000,000 payment for sure.  At that time, the payment will be distributed to all owners of the firm & the firm will disolve.  How much is the firm worth?  We know it will be worth $100MM in a year.  What is the right interest rate.  Suppose is it 10%.  Can we find the value of the firm now?  Sure -- it is the amount that if we invest it at 10% it will be worth $100MM in a year.  That is, it is worth $100MM/1.1 or $90,909,090.91 now.  \n\nOK -- what happens if interest rates change.  Perhaps they go up to 11%.  Then the value of our firm changes to $100MM/1.11 = $90,090,090.09 -- losing almost $82K in value.  If rates go down, the value should go up.\n\nNext, let's look at CPI.  This is the rate of inflation.  If it increases, people will think that they need more money to have the same lifestyle in the future.  If they are worried about inflation, they will demand a higher interest rate to compensate them for higher prices in the future.  So, changes in expected inflation change the interest rates, and therfore change stock prices.\n\nWhat about the economic growth rate?  If the economy grows faster than expected, then maybe that $100MM that we thought the company was going to get will be higher.  A higher payment translates into higher stock prices.\n\nAs for employment, it turns out that the employment rate is associated with growth.  If a lot of companies are hiring, then there will be more money spent by the new employees, and there will be more produced by those new employees, so demand for goods goes up.  This causes an increase in the expected profits, and higher stock prices.  It isn't quite so simple, though.  If there are too many people working, then the demand for labor causes higher costs and lower profits, which causes stock prices to decline.
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Calculate the net present value of future cash flows using a discount factor that takes account of the risk profile of the firm.  Then divide that figure by the number of shares.