Q. Application of concept of TVM

Sometime the financial manager has to deal with the varying situation of the decision making where the concept of TVM needs to be applied in the one form or the other However. It may be noted the proper understanding of the cash flows selection o0f the appropriate discounting compounding technique and Appling the correct are some of the prerequisites of an appropriate decision based on TVM. Practice and experience, both are required for the purpose use of the technique of TVM. The following are the sum of application of the concept of the TVM.

1) finding out the implicit rate of the interest: several financial institution have issued the deep discount bond (DDB) where the investor is required to pay a specific amount per bond at the time of the of issue and receive a much a large amount at the end of the a specific period the rate of interest is not given the technique of the TVM can be applied to find out the implicit rate of interest applicable to DDBs.

2) Finding out the number of period: sometime one may be interested to find out the time over the period which a certain amount will grow at the given rate of interest to a certain value. In this case the value can be ascertained by solving the followings equation

FV= PV (1+r) n