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An explanation of interest due, its calculation, and the application of payments to loan balances. It also covers the concept of loan amortization and how to use a calculator for amortization calculations.
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Interest Due is the mirror image of interest earned In Principles of Finance you learned that interest earned is:
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The periodic interest rate is the Note Rate divided by the periods per year For mortgages, the period is usually one month (12 periods per year) The monthly interest rate charged can then be computed as:
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You borrowed $250,000 last month at 6 3/8%. How much interest is due now? 250,000*6.375/1200 = 1328. If you make a payment more than 1328.13, you will be “amortizing” your loan If you make a payment less than 1,328. you will have negative amortization, or more pleasantly called, positive accrual
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Your loan contract will specify the use of payments on your loan. Typically money will first be used to make up any arrears in payments or any penalties you have incurred If you are paying according to schedule, your payment will first be applied to interest due. Any amount of your payment that exceeds the interest due will be used to amortize (pay down) the principal 16-
For the previous Interest Due example, say you made of payment of $1500. First the 1328.13 interest would be subtracted from your payment and the remaining amount (1500 – 1328.13 = 171.88) would be used to pay down the principal. Your new principal amount would be 250,000.00 – 171.88 = 249,828.
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If your loan payment and interest rate are constant, your calculator can do the amortization calculations for you. If your loan payment changes every month, and if the interest rate changes every month, you will need to do a month by month amortization of the loan which allows for these changes.
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Clear the calculator before new problems (Use the J C ALL ) Make sure:
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BEGIN indicator is not displayed, unless you are told this problem has beginning of period cash flows
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P/YR = 12 (indicate the periods per year) PMT(PV=-270,000, I/Yr = 6, N=180) = 2278. Order of inputs does not matter Negative sign for PV indicates a cash outflow N = number of periods I/YR = stated annual interest rate The last button one pushes is what you want to solve for: in this case PMT.
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One sets up the Amortization table in the calculator by entering the starting period and pressing the INPUT key, and then entering the ending period and pressing the
Press the = key to cycle through the principal paid, the interest paid, and the ending balance.
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For the previous example, how much interest will be paid in the second year? First solve for the monthly payment