Managers often have to make decisions about trade-offs between the cash flows to be paid or received at different times. Accountants, in turn, must describe the operations, which include the payment and / or receipt of cash in the distant future. This interactive tutorial covers the key concepts associated with cash flows that occur at different times. Students study: Why the dollar received or paid in the future is worth less than a dollar today, how to calculate how much the dollar is worth less than the future, based on the interest rate and how far in the future, it must be received or paid, how to translate the cash flows from any point time in their present or future value at any other point in time, and how to use annuity tables and Excel functions to simplify some of the calculations, as well as to solve complex problems using these tools. "Hide
by Robert S. Kaplan Source: Books Publication Date: January 1, 2005. Prod. #: 104708-HTM-ENG
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