What Is The Concept Of Time Value Of Money And 2 Ways It Is Relevant In Financial Planning?
November 6th, 2009 | by Frenday |Being in high school, this money investing thing is very confusing. I thought that we saved money by putting it into the bank and when we needed it, just take it out.
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One Response to “What Is The Concept Of Time Value Of Money And 2 Ways It Is Relevant In Financial Planning?”
By C on Nov 6, 2009 | Reply
The rate of inflation is higher than the benefit of putting money in the bank (i.e. inflation > than bank interest).
Say you have $20. You can buy a $20 dvd with that money now. If you put that money in the bank for 5 years, inflation will have caused the price of dvds (and everything) to go up over that 5 years…so dvds now cost $22. You only have $20 in the bank so you can’t buy them. Therefore money is affected by time.
(Obviously this is a simplified example because dvds will have gone down in price what with new technology etc but you know what I mean I hope).
I’m sure you can get two ways why its relevent to financial planning out of that.