You expect to receive $10,000 as a bonus after 5 years on the job. You have calculated the present value of this bonus, and the answer is $8,000. What discount rate did you use in your calculation?
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The present value (PV) of a future amount of money is the current value of that amount that you would need to invest today, at a given rate of interest (discount rate), to end up with the specified future amount. The formula to calculate the present value is PV = Show more…
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