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Consider annuities which have equal payments spread over equal intervals of time. A simple or regular ordinary annuity possesses two important properties. State these two important properties.
Uniform payments and equal time intervals such as months, quarters or years, are the two characteristics that make a series of payments an annuity
The number of cash flows is fixed
The time interval between two cash flows is same
The cash flows are fixed
The cash flows occur at the end of the period
Annuities help both the creditor and debtor have predictable cash flows, and it spreads payments of the investment out over time