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- SIMPLE INTEREST
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- In transactions involving simple
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- interest, the principal, on which the
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- interest is computed, does not change
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- throughout the term of the loan and
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- interest becomes due at either the end
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- of the term or at stated intervals
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- throughout the term of the loan.
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- As an example, suppose you were to
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- borrow $1000 for one year at 12%
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- interest. At the end of the year, you
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- would repay the $1000 plus $120
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- interest for the use of the money.
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- However, there is another method
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- which was commonly in use by car
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- salesmen and financial institutions,
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- until about 15 years ago, called
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- ADD-ON interest.
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- By this method, the total interest
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- for the term of the loan is
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- calculated, then added to the
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- principal. The loan is repaid in a
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- series of equal payments the amount of
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- each payment being equal to the
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- principal plus interest all divided by
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- the number of payments.
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- In the above example there would be
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- 12 monthly payments of $93.33 per
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- month.
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- Verify that the actual annual
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- percentage rate (APR) on a one-year
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- loan of $1000 with 12 monthly payments
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- of $93.33 is at an interest rate (APR)
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- of 21.4% - not 12%. (Use the LOADSTAR
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- AMORTIZATION PROGRAM on this disk).
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- The ADD-ON method of lending is now
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- considered by the federal government
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- to be misleading and illegal as it
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- does not take into consideration the
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- decreasing balance as payments are
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- made.
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- If a lender quotes this type of
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- interest to you, beware (caveat
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- emptor).
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- To run the LOADSTAR AMORTIZATION
- \oad"amortization",8
- PROGRAM now, press "\".
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