Before starting here, make sure you're comfortable with Compound Interest and Recurrence Relations from Unit 3. This topic applies those same tools to investments, depreciation and loan planning.
Growing Money
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Compound Interest Investments
Apply compound interest to investment accounts, find the future value, compare rates, and work out how long until a target is reached.
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Shares & Dividends
How share investments work, calculate dividend yield, compare returns, and evaluate whether an investment is performing well.
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Depreciation
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Straight-Line Depreciation
Assets that lose the same dollar amount every year. Find the value at any point in time, or how long until it reaches scrap value.
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Reducing Balance Depreciation
Assets that lose a percentage of their current value each year, like a car or computer. Same structure as compound interest but going down.
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Loans & Financial Planning
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Loan Repayments
Plan repayments on reducing balance loans, build amortisation tables, find total interest, and see how extra repayments save money.
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Financial Planning
Combine investments, loans and annuities to plan for a goal, saving for a house deposit, planning retirement, or comparing financial products.
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Test Yourself, Escape Rooms
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Market Vault
FV · compounding periods · interest earned · finding n
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Trading Floor
Dividend yield · P/E ratio · capital growth · total return
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Car Yard
Annual depreciation · V = P − Dn · finding n and P
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Tech Drop
V = P(1−r)ⁿ · recurrence · depreciation rate
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Dream Home
Monthly interest · amortisation · total interest · extra repayments
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Life Plan
FV annuity · savings goals · PMT × [(1+r)ⁿ−1]/r
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