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Question 3: You place equal periodic investment payments in to bothan ordinary simple annuityaccount and an annuity dueaccount for the same period of time and at the same interest rate.
Briefly describe how the accumulated value (future value) would differ between the two accounts at the end of the investment period. (5 points)
In future value the person will know how much the person will have every year
Ordinary annuity is when you make the payment at the end of period and annuity due is when you make the deposit at the beginning of the period. Let’s take an example to understand this,
A 5-year ordinary annuity in which you have to deposit every year 5000 at 7% interest rate. Here the first deposit you will make is at year 1, at the end of period.
A 5-year annuity due in which you have to deposit every year 5000 at 7% interest rate. Here the first deposit you will have to make today, at time zero.
The difference in terms of future value is, the future value would be higher for the annuity due because the first deposit would remain invested for 5 years and so on but in the case of ordinary annuity the first payment would remain invested for 4 years so the future value of annuity due would be higher.
If we use the financial calculator to calculate the Future value of these annuities then the future value of ordinary annuity would be $28,753.70 and the future value of annuity due would be $30,766.45.