Discount, amoritize, and expense

dlkillabee

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Can someone help me define these terms, and put them in an example. I just need someone to put it in prespective for me. I know there fairly basic, but my mind is working right now.
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Discount- Usually it is used in reference to present value of future cash flows. If you expect to receive $110 a year from now, discounted at 10%, the PV of that cash flow would be $100. You discount the $110 using the 10% rate (or whatever rate you decide on based on risk, inflation, risk-free rate, etc.) back to it's value today.

Amoritize- Same concept as depreciation, only it is technically for intangible assets, such as patents, copyrights, etc. When you amoritize a patent, you allocate the expense over the patents life. You buy a drug that is patented (patent expires in X years), the cost of that aquisition is amoritized over X years. The amortization expense per year depends on how the company decides/legally allowed to amoritize the patent.

Expense is just a cost. Interest expense on debt/bond is the same as the cost you pay to borrow that money. You have one year long loan for $100, the interest expense is $10, it cost you $10 to borrow that $100 for the year, on top of repaying the $100.
 
Dlkillabee, as much as I endorse and fully respect anything to do with Wu-Tang, I'll give you a friendly "heads-up" here - if you're asking these questions and they're not "tongue-in-cheek", I'm going to say that you're at a MASSIVE disadvantage for the test. For you to pass, I would recommend at least five hours of studying a day from now until test day.

A nice checkpoint for your progress (in about two week's time, don't want to set unrealistic goals) would be to see if you can define "revenue", "probability", "bonds", or "equity".
 
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