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Financial Management: Core Concepts, Third Edition
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Financial Management: Core Concepts, Third Edition

by Raymond M. Brooks
January 2015
Beginner
480 pages
31h 42m
English
Pearson
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3.5 Doubling of Money: The Rule of 72

Another application of the time value of money equation enables us to determine how long it takes your money to double at a certain growth or interest rate. We can easily adapt this equation to the required waiting period for money to double by realizing that it is a problem of scale for which we can select 1 as the present value and 2 as the future value. By substituting the growth rate or interest rate into the equation, we can calculate how long it takes money to double at that rate. For 8%,

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Hit the N key for CPT of 9.01; input 8.0, hit the I/Y key; input -1, hit the PV key; input 0, hit the ...

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