Compounding & Future Value
Discounting & Present Value
Valuation & Assets in the Real World
FUN
100

The financial process of moving money forward in time where interest earned in past periods earns its own interest in subsequent periods.

compounding 

100

The process of moving future cash flows backward in time to calculate their value today.

What is discounting?

100

The fair market value of financial assets like stocks and bonds is determined by calculating the present value of these expected items.

dividends, interest, principal 

100

What sport uses a shuttlecock?

badmitton

200

If you invest $200 today in an account earning 10% compound interest annually, this is your total balance at the end of 2 years.

What is $242.00?

200

When the discount rate used on a future cash flow rises, its present value changes in this direction.

What is decreasing (or dropping)?

200

True or False: High corporate profit from 10 years ago directly increases a stock's valuation today, even if future revenue drops.

False

200

What is the name of the three-headed dog in Harry Potter?

fluffy

300

 Unlike compound interest, this interest calculation method earns returns strictly on the initial principal balance, ignoring past accumulated interest.

simple interest

300

The present value of $500 to be received 2 years from today using a discount rate of 10%.

$413.22

300

An asset promises to pay $100 in Year 1 and $100 in Year 2. If the discount rate is 0%, its exact market value today is this amount.

$200

300

From what grain is whiskey made?

barley 

400

Calculate Investing $1,000 for 3 years at 5% for  compound interest

$1,157.63

400

Between $1,000 received in 5 years and $1,000 received in 10 years at a positive discount rate, this payment has the lower present value today.

What is the $1,000 received in 10 years?

400

A bond promises to pay $50 at the end of Year 1 and $1,050 at the end of Year 2. At a market discount rate of 5%, its total present market value is this round number.

What is $1,000.00?

400

What is the capital city of Australia?

Canberra

500

These two factors can be increased to geometrically expand the terminal future value of an investment.

interest rate and time 

500

If the present value of a future cash flow drops from $822 to $713, this shift must have taken place regarding the discount rate

What is an increase in the discount rate?

500

What is the name of the literary device that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"?

Simile

500

Which famous physicist was a high-school dropout?

Albert einstein

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