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Future Amount
Source: Encyclopedia of Banking & Finance (9h Edition) by Charles J Woelfel
(We recommend this as work of authority.)

Value at a later date of a given sum that is invested at compound interest.

  1. Future amount of 1 (or amount of a given sum).  The future value of $1.00 (or a single given sum), a, at the end of n periods at I compound interest rate.

Period 

10% 

12%

5

1.61051

 1.76234

10

2.59374

 3.10585

  1. Future amount of an annuity.  The future value of a series of rents invested at compound interest; the accumulated total that results from a series of equal deposits at regular intervals invested at compound interest.  Deposits and interest increase the accumulation.

  1. Future amount of an ordinary annuity.  The future value on the date of the last rend.

Period

10%

12%

5

6.10510

6.35285

10

15.93743

17.54874

  1. Future amount of an annuity due.  The future value one period after the date of the last rent.  When an annuity due table is not available, use the following formula:

Amount of annuity due of 1 for n rents =

Amount or ordinary annuity for (n + rent) - 1.

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