Money-Time Relationship and

Equivalence
 Money has a time value
It has been said that often the riskiest thing a
person can do with money is nothing!

Money has value, and if money remains uninvested

(like in a large bottle), value is lost.
It is a well-known fact that money makes money. The
time value of money explains the change
in the amount of money over time for funds that are
owned (invested) or owed (borrowed).
This is the most important concept in engineering
economy.
Interest and
Interest Rates
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Pay no interest
until next year!

Now 2.6 percent daily

interest on passbook
accounts!
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Interest is the difference between the amount of money lent and the
amount of money later repaid. It is the compensation for giving up
the use of the money for the duration of the loan. If the difference is
zero or negative, there is no interest.

Interest = amount owed now - principal

Interest

1 period

Principal Interest rate (i) Principal

PRESENT FUTURE
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There are two perspectives to an amount of interest:

interest paid and interest earned

Interest is paid when a person or organization borrowed money (obtained a

loan) and repays a larger amount over time. Interest paid on borrowed
funds (a loan) is determined using the original amount, also called the
principal.

Interest is earned when a person or organization

saved, invested, or lent money and obtains a return of
a larger amount over time.
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Interest paid Interest earned

Borrower = Interest rate Investor = Rate of return

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When interest paid over a specific time unit is expressed as a percentage of

the principal, the result is called the interest rate.

Interest accrued per time unit

Interest rate (%) = principal x 100%

The time unit of the rate is called the interest period.

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Example:
An employee at LaserKinetics.com borrows 10,000 on May 1, 2023 and must repay a total of
10,700 exactly 1 year later. Determine the interest amount and the interest rate paid.

Solution
Determine the interest paid:
Interest = amount owed now - principal

May 1, 2023 Interest = 10,700 – 10,000

= 700

Determine the interest rate paid for 1 year:

700
Percent interest rate = x 100% = 7% per year
10,000
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Example:
Stereophonics, Inc., plans to borrow $20,000 from a bank for 1 year at 9% interest for new
recording equipment. Compute the interest and the total amount due after 1 year.

Solution
Compute the total interest accrued
Interest = $20,000(0.09) = $1,800

The total amount due is the sum of principal and interest.

Total due = $20,000 + $1,800 = $21,800
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From the perspective of a saver, a lender, or an investor,

interest earned is the final amount minus the initial
amount, or principal.

Interest earned = total amount now - principal

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Example:
(a) Calculate the amount deposited 1 year ago to have $1,000 now at an interest rate of 5% per year.
(b) Calculate the amount of interest earned during this time period.

Solution
(a) The total amount accrued ($1,000) is the sum of the original deposit and the earned interest.
If X is the original deposit,
Today Total accrued = deposit + deposit(interest rate)
1,000 = X + X(0.05)
1,000 = X (1 + 0.05)
1000
X= = 952.38
1.05

(b) determine the interest earned

Interest = $1,000 - 952.38
= $47.62
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Interest earned over a specific period of time is expressed as a percentage of

the original amount and is called rate of return (ROR).

Interest accrued per time unit

Rate of return = x 100%
Principal

The term return on investment (ROI) is used equivalently with ROR in

different industries and settings, especially where large capital funds are
committed to engineering-oriented programs.

The term interest rate paid is more appropriate for

the borrower’s perspective, while the rate of return
earned is better for the investor’s perspective.
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Inflation represents a decrease in the value of a given currency. Inflation means that cost and
revenue cash flow estimates increase over time. This increase is due to the changing value of
money that is forced upon a country’s currency by inflation, thus making a unit of currency (such
as the dollar) worth less relative to its value at a previous time

In simple terms, interest rates reflect two things: a so-called real rate of return plus the expected
inflation rate. The real rate of return allows the investor to purchase more than he or she could
have purchased before the investment, while inflation raises the real rate to the market rate
that we use on a daily basis.

From the borrower’s perspective, the rate of inflation is

another interest rate tacked on to the real interest rate.
And from the vantage point of the saver or investor in a
fixed-interest account, inflation reduces the real rate of
return on the investment.
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Inflation contributes to:

 A reduction in purchasing power of the currency
 An increase in the CPI (consumer price index)
 An increase in the cost of equipment and its
maintenance
 An increase in the cost of salaried professionals
and hourly employees
 A reduction in the real rate of return on personal
savings and certain corporate investments
Terminology and Symbols

P - value or amount of money at a time designated as the present or time 0. Also P is referred
to as present worth (PW), present value (PV), net present value (NPV), discounted cash flow
(DCF), and capitalized cost (CC); monetary units, such as dollars

F - value or amount of money at some future time. Also F is called future worth (FW) and
future value (FV); dollars

A - series of consecutive, equal, end-of-period amounts of money. Also A is called the annual
worth (AW) and equivalent uniform annual worth (EUAW); dollars per year, euros per month

n - number of interest periods; years, months, days

I - interest rate per time period; percent per year, percent per month

t - time, stated in periods; years, months, days

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Example:
Today, Julie borrowed 5000 to purchase furniture for her new house. She can repay the
loan in either of the two ways described below. Determine the engineering economy
symbols and their value for each option.
(a) Five equal annual installments with interest based on 5% per year.
(b) One payment 3 years from now with interest based on 7% per year.

Solution
(a) The repayment schedule requires an (b) Repayment requires a single future
equivalent annual amount A , which is amount F, which is unknown.
unknown. P = 5000
P = 5000 i = 7% per year
i = 5% per year n = 3 years
n = 5 years F=?
A=?
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Example:
Last year Jane’s grandmother offered to put enough money into a savings account to generate 5000 in
interest this year to help pay Jane’s expenses at college. ( a ) Identify the symbols, and ( b ) calculate the
amount that had to be deposited exactly 1 year ago to earn 5000 in interest now, if the rate of return is 6%
per year.

Solution
(a) Symbols P (last year is 1) (b) Let F total amount now and P original amount. We know
and F (this year) are needed. that F – P = 5000 is accrued interest. Now we can determine P .
P=? F = P + Pi
i = 6% per year
n = 1 year The $5000 interest can be expressed as
Interest = F – P
F = P + interest = ( P + Pi ) – P
= ? + $5000 = Pi
$5000 = P (0.06)
P = 83,333.33
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Cash flow is the sum of money recorded as receipts or

disbursements in a project’s financial records.

Cash inflows are the receipts, revenues, Cash outflows are costs, disbursements,
incomes, and savings generated by project expenses, and taxes caused by projects and
and business activity. A plus sign indicates a business activity. A negative or minus sign
cash inflow. indicates a cash outflow. When a project
involves only costs, the minus sign may be
omitted for some techniques, such as
benefit/cost analysis.

Cash Outflows (-)

Cash Inflows (+)
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Once all cash inflows and outflows are estimated (or determined for a completed
project), the net cash flow for each time period is calculated.

Net cash flow = cash inflows – cash outflows

NCF = R - D

where
NCF is net cash flow
R is receipts
D is disbursements
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Cash Inflow Estimates

Income: + $150,000 per year from sales of solar-powered watches
Savings: + $24,500 tax savings from capital loss on equipment salvage
Receipt: + $750,000 received on large business loan plus accrued interest
Savings: + $150,000 per year saved by installing more efficient air conditioning
Revenue: + $50,000 to $75,000 per month in sales for extended battery life iPhones

Cash Outflow Estimates

Operating costs: + $230,000 per year annual operating costs for software services
First cost: + $800,000 next year to purchase replacement earthmoving equipment
Expense: + $20,000 per year for loan interest payment to bank
Initial cost: + $1 to $1.2 million in capital expenditures for a water recycling unit
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The end-of-period convention means that all cash inflows and all cash outflows are assumed to
take place at the end of the interest period in which they actually occur. When several inflows
and outflows occur within the same period, the net cash flow is assumed to occur at the end of
the period.

Point estimates - single-value estimates for cash flow elements of an alternative

Example: Cash inflow: Income = $150,000 per month

Range estimate – Minimum and maximum values that estimate the cash flow
Example: Cash outflow: Cost is between $2.5 M and $3.2 M
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A cash flow diagram presents the flow of cash as arrows on a time line scaled to the
magnitude of the cash flow, where expenses are down arrows and receipts are up arrows. It is
a graphical representation of cash flows drawn on the y axis with a time scale on the x axis.
The diagram includes what is known, what is estimated, and what is needed.

The cash-flow diagram employs several conventions

1 The horizontal line is a time scale, with progression of time moving from left to right. The period (e.g., year,
quarter, month) labels can be applied to intervals of time rather than to points on the time scale.
Year 1

Beginning of 0 1 2 3
Year 1
End of
Year 1
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The cash-flow diagram employs several conventions
The arrows signify cash flows and are placed at the end of the period. If a distinction needs to be made,
2 downward arrows represent expenses (negative cash flows or cash outflows) and upward arrows
represent receipts (positive cash flows or cash inflows).

+
Cash flow

0 1 2 3

-
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The cash-flow diagram employs several conventions
The cash-flow diagram is dependent on the point of view. For example, the Figure below is based on
3 cash flow as seen by the lender (the credit card company). If the directions of all arrows had been
reversed, the problem would have been diagrammed from the borrower’s viewpoint.

Investor’s View

0 1 2 3

Borrower’s View
P = 1,000 P = 1,000

0 1 2 3
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Example
Before evaluating the economic merits of a proposed investment, the XYZ Corporation insists that its
engineers develop a cash-flow diagram of the proposal. An investment of $10,000 can be made that will
produce uniform annual revenue of $5,310 for five years and then have a market (recovery) value of $2,000 at
the end of year (EOY) five. Annual expenses will be $3,000 at the end of each year for operating and
maintaining the project. Draw a cash-flow diagram for the five-year life of the project. Use the corporation’s
viewpoint.

2,000
Cash Outflows:

5,310 5,310 5,310 5,310 5,310

0 1 2 3 4 5
Cash Inflows:
3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000

10,000
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Example
An electrical engineer wants to deposit an amount P now such that she can withdraw an equal annual
amount of A1 $2000 per year for the first 5 years, starting 1 year after the deposit, and a different annual
withdrawal of A2 $3000 per year for the following 3 years. How would the cash flow diagram appear if
i = 8.5% per year?

3,000 3,000 3,000

Cash Outflows: 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Cash Inflows: i = 8.5%

P=?
Thank You!