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VCE 12 General 2023

5.05 Compound interest investments and loans

Lesson
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Outcomes

U3.AoS2.6

demonstrate the use of a recurrence relation to determine the depreciating value of an asset or the future value of an investment or a loan after 𝑛 time periods for the initial sequence

U3.AoS2.7

use a rule for the future value of a compound interest investment or loan, or a depreciating asset, to solve practical problems

U3.AoS2.3

the concepts of financial mathematics including simple and compound interest, nominal and effective interest rates, the present and future value of an investment, loan or asset, amortisation of a reducing balance loan or annuity and amortisation tables

U3.AoS2.4

the use of first-order linear recurrence relations to model compound interest investments and loans, and the flat rate, unit cost and reducing balance methods for depreciating assets, reducing balance loans, annuities, perpetuities and annuity investments

U3.AoS2.9

use technology with financial mathematics capabilities, to solve practical problems associated with compound interest investments and loans, reducing balance loans, annuities and perpetuities, and annuity investments

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