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Sunday, November 5, 2023

Accounting: The Language of Business - Vol. 2 (Intermediate: Part 111)


“Make something people want includes making a company that people want to work for.”
— Sahil Lavingia, CEO of Gumroad


Accounting and the Time Value of Money (Part U)

by

Charles Lamson


Time Value of Money Accounting Applications


In the preceding parts of this analysis, we summarized several examples of the use of time value of money concepts in accounting. Now that we have discussed time value of money tools, we return to two basic accounting applications in more detail: the present value of expected cash flows (covered in this part) and bond valuation (covered in the next part).




Present Value of Future Cash Flows


A common method of measuring assets is the present value of expected future cash flows. For example, notes receivable are reported on the balance sheet at the present value of future cash flows, using the market rate of interest as the discount rate in the present value computations. The face value of the note does not matter. the amount reported on the balance sheet is always equal to the present value of the future cash flows.





*GORDON, RAEDY, SANNELLA, 2019, INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING, 2ND ED., PP. 353,355*


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