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Financial Maths - Compound interest.
Basic information.


 

Compound interest contrasts to simple interest in that here the amount earned in interest is added to the amount invested. Hence the amount which is invested at any point in time incorporates not just the original amount invested but also all the interest which has been baid previously.

So the sequence followed in compound interest can be summarised as follows:

Original investment: