Discount Rate I,”In finance jargon, we usually refer to the rate at which we move money through time as the discount rate, regardless of whether we are compounding (i.e., calculating the future value of a sum) or discounting (i.e., calculating the present value of a sum). This rate actually has several names (i.e., the discount rate, the cost of capital, the required rate of return, the interest rate) and several possible abbreviations (i.e., r, i, k, y)

Discount Rate I,”In finance jargon, we usually refer to the rate at which we move money through time as the discount rate, regardless of whether we are compounding (i.e., calculating the future value of a sum) or discounting (i.e., calculating the present value of a sum). This rate actually has several names (i.e., the discount rate, the cost of capital, the required rate of return, the interest rate) and several possible abbreviations (i.e., r, i, k, y)

but all these refer to the same rate/idea.1″