Annual Effective Discount Rate
The annual effective discount rate is the annual interest divided by the capital including that interest, which is the interest rate divided by 100% plus the interest rate. It is the annual discount factor to be applied to the future cash flow, to find the discount, subtracted from a future value to find the value one year earlier.
For example, suppose there is a government bond that sells for $95 and pays $100 in a year's time. The discount rate according to the given definition is
The interest rate is calculated using 95 as its base:
For every annual effective interest rate, there is a corresponding annual effective discount rate, given by the following formula
or inversely,
where the approximations apply for small i and d; in fact i - d = id.
See also notation of interest rates.
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