August 2004
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
15h 28m
English
Using the equal-payment-series capital-recovery (A/P,i,n) formula from the last chapter, you can find the payment amount for a loan given the amount borrowed, duration, and interest rate. However, loans don't always run for their full length. The borrower could decide to pay off the loan early if they wanted. The question in this case is, “How much would the borrower need to pay to make an early payoff?” This payoff amount is sometimes called the unpaid balance, unrecovered balance, or principal owed.
Assume that SRS Software has a 5-year loan of $25,000 at an APR of 6% compounded monthly. According to the formula earlier in this chapter, the 6% APR in monthly terms is i = 6% / 12 = 0.5% per ...
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