Think about anticipated balances like those old story problems in math class, the ones where two trains leave opposing stations headed toward each other and you have to figure out where they will meet (presumably in a fiery derailment, resulting in dozens, if not hundreds, of horrendous casualties...though your math teacher never wanted to talk about that and eventually stopped calling on you).
Anticipated balances use predictable rates, along with a little math, to figure out where your bank account will be at some point in the future, much like those doomed, hypothetical trains.
The anticipated balance is the balance that an account will have at some point in the future, assuming no additional withdrawals or deposits occur. It includes the amount in the account, plus any compounded interest accumulated over the time in question. It can also include specific regular deposits, if that makes sense for the particular situation.
So you are putting money away to buy one of those tiny homes you saw on TV. You need $13,000. You have $3,000 and access to an account earning 2% a year. Using anticipated balances, you can determine how much you would need to save each month in order to get the house of your tiny dreams. (Want to know the answer? Get a calculator and figure it out. We're not your math teacher; you're on your own.)
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finance a la shmoop what is defeasance? oh it's been a tough slog for our [Superman flying through the air]
friends Superman competition from x-men Iron Man Facebook
yeah he's just cutting well tired so needing something else to do he finally
built a home in his Fortress of Solitude nice four-bedroom ranch house with an [Ranch house bedrooms appear]
enclosed patio all new steel appliances and an open-concept kitchen for you know
when the Louis comes by or some of the guys but work has been slow so we had to
take out a mortgage yeah a million bucks and well you know he wanted a nice man
cave although Batman still rules the roost in
that department but we're not gonna go there [Batman in a cave]
anyway the mortgage cost 6% a year what he had bad credit all those buildings
Superman wrecked yes someone's gonna pay for him right so the million bucks cost
60 grand a year to rent and that rent well it kind of stresses him out he
wants to not have to worry you know so what does he do well he buys bonds yeah
Superman buying bonds he had some extra cash left over from well when the city
of Metropolis rewarded him financially for you know reversing time to save that [Earth spinning]
busload of kids in fact he had 800 grand just sitting around and the bonds he
bought had a yield of 7% or said another way he collected rent on his eight
hundred grand of 56k a year and that helped a ton because that 56k covered
almost all of the 60k he had to pay on his mortgage and note that Superman just
cuz he's you know Superman he didn't pay any taxes so gross is net here people so
said another way soup here defeased all but four grand of his mortgage
obligation in buying those bonds which offset his monthly cash costs and why
wouldn't he have just paid off the mortgage well for this story there's a
prepayment penalty meaning he's not allowed to pay off early without all
kinds of cash penalties you know in the bank loaned him the money they wanted to
be certain to get the minimum amount of interest payments over the shortest
possible time period you know to make up for all that perceived risk [Superman cartoon moving steel gurder]
considering all the high-powered enemies he's you know facing all the time
because yeah when it comes to risk it's a you know kind of Superman's kryptonite [Superman screaming]
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