Student loans are amortized with monthly payments over a period of 5 to 10 years. To help you service the debt, if you have several student loans outstanding then you can consolidate the loans, at a single blended rate, and extend the repayment period to s long as:
In _________ the use of single-payment loan to finance a purchase or pay bills in situations where the funds to be used for repayment are known to be forthcoming in the near future.
You want to buy an ordinary annuity that will pay you $4,000 a year for the next 20 years. You expect annual interest rates will be 8 percent over that time period.
The maximum price you would be willing to pay for the annuity is closest to:
BackInSoon, Inc., has estimated that a proposed project's 10-year annual net cash benefit, received each year end, will be $2,500 with an additional terminal benefit of $5,000 at the end of the tenth year. Assuming that these cash inflows satisfy exactly BackInSoon's required rate of return of 8 percent, calculate the initial cash outlay. (Hint: With a desired IRR of 8%, use the IRR formula: ICO = discounted cash flows.)