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Compounding Frequency & Future Values

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Did you answer this poll question right before this lesson? If so, which one did you choose? We can actually use Excel to figure out the best option, but first, you'll need to download another Excel workbook, which we'll use in this chapter. And this workbook is called Effective and Nominal Interest Rates Template. So pause the video now if you still needto download this workbook and press play when you're ready. So here we are in our effective and nominal interest rates template workbook, and I've gone to the demo sheet and we want to answer the question, which bank, bank A or B is the best bank to deposit out $1000 worth? So let's start with Bank A. We are going to deposit $1000. They are offering us a 10% interest rate and they're saying that they're going to pay us interest on a quarterly basis, so the frequency is four. Now how many times a year do we get our interest payment? Well, we take our one year and we divide it by the compounding frequency of four. Let me just do that again. One divided by four. And so we get paid interest every quarter of a year. So let's complete the table starting by with zero, at four time today. And then we're going to add one quarter of year to this each time. So we're going to start with the time period before and we're going to add one quarter of a year, which we will absolutely reference and we can just fill that down, and then, we see our four compounding periods. Now, our total value, well we're starting with a $1000, so times zero, we've got a 1000, so we can just pull that in there. How much interest do we have or will we earn? Well, we're going to earn interest based on the starting amount here and it's going to be 10%, but we are going to get quarter of that every... For every three months. And again, we'll absolutely reference that and just tad to go along. And we can see that we're gonna get $25 at the end of the first three month period, the end of the first quarter. So our total value will be our starting amount plus the interest there. So now, we've got this formula that we can see that we calculate the quarterly interest and we are adding it to the total value. So now, if I just highlight those two columns, E and F and then Ctrl+D to fill down, you can see that at the end of the year, bank A is going to pay us 1,103.89. What about bank B who's paying interest on a monthly basis? While again, we're going to have a $1000, to start with, the nominal interest is still 10%, but now the compounding frequency is 12, and the compounding period is gonna be one year divided by the frequency. And so one month is 0.08 of a year. So our time and year is starting at zero for today. And now we're going to add 0.8 of a year... 0.08 of a year, I should say each time period. So, we can now fill this down and hit Ctrl+D and there's our one year broken into monthly periods. We're going to start at time zero with our present value of a 1000. And our interest is going to be our nominal interest rate, absolutely reference divided by the compounding frequency absolutely reference. And we're going to multiply that by the amount that we have at the start of the period, which we just get here, 1000 in cell L13. And we're not going to absolutely reference that because B want that to be relatively referenced. Hit tab to go along. We see in the first month we earn 8.33 worth of interest, which we can add to the total amount that we have 1000. So at the end of the first month, we'll have 1008.33. Now because we've got the formulas in there, we can just highlight the columns K and L and Ctrl+D to fill down. You can see that bank B is actually going to give us 1104.71 at the end of the year, which is a little bit more than bank A due to the higher frequency of the compounding. So we can think about this a little bit more by scrolling down and completing this table. Right? So to complete this table we can see the effect of increasing the compounding frequency. So if we have a present value of a 1000, and our nominal industry is 10%, as before, what will our present value and our future values be? So our present value is always going to be a thousand, right? So I'm gonna absolutely reference that by pressing F4 and I can just fill that down. Now what about our compounding frequency? Well, annual compounding means the compounding frequency is just going to be one. Semi annual, our compounding frequency will be two. Quarterly, as in bank A, the compounding frequency will be four. Monthly compounding means we have a compounding frequency of 12, weekly is 52. And if we assume 365 days in the year, our daily compounding means our frequency is 365. So what will our future values be? Well, our future value is going to be the present value times open bracket one plus the nominal interest rate, and we can absolutely reference that divided by the compounding frequency, and we won't absolutely reference that, we want that to remain as a relative reference, all raised to the number of compounding periods if again. And so, we can see that if we have annual compounding, we'll have 1100 at the end of the year. If we have semi annual compounding, I can just fill down with Ctrl+D. We'll have 1102.5 Now we know what we'll have with quarterly compounding because that's what bank A paid us. And again, if we just Ctrl+D to fill down, there we see the same result that we see in the top of the screen, 1103.81. Monthly compounding is bank B, and we can see that we get the same result, 1104.81. And if we increase the compounding periods, we can see that our future value increases and increases. So here's the table that we've just constructed back in the Excel workbook where the nominal interest rate was 10%. And here is that key takeaway that I really want you to remember. Increasing the compounding frequency accelerates the growth of the investments future value because interest is calculated and added to the principle more frequently leading to a higher accumulated amount over time.

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