This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

The Time Value of Money is the single most important idea in finance, and the foundation of the entire CFA® Level 1 curriculum.
Almost everything you will ever value (a bond, a stock, a loan, a project, a pension) comes down to one question: what is a future cash flow worth today? This course teaches you to answer that question with confidence.
We start from first principles: why a dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow, and how a single interest rate can be read three different ways: as a required return, a discount rate, or an opportunity cost. From there we build, step by step, to everything the exam expects you to know.

What we cover

Future value and present value of a single cash flow, and simple versus compound interest

Compounding frequency (monthly, quarterly, daily and continuous) and the Effective Annual Rate (EAR) that lets you compare any two rates fairly

Annuities and annuities due: valuing an entire stream of level payments in one step

Perpetuities, deferred cash flows, and the cash flow additivity principle for irregular streams

Solving problems in reverse: finding the interest rate (CAGR), the number of periods, or the size of a loan or savings payment

Reading a loan as an amortization of interest and principal

How it is taught

Every concept is introduced visually, built up with intuition, then locked in with a fully worked example: the numbers are shown line by line, never skipped. No prior finance knowledge is assumed.
You will also download the complete slide deck and a Formulas Cheat Sheet, so you can revise without re-watching a single video.
By the end, the Time Value of Money will stop being a set of formulas to memorise and start being a way of thinking, one you will use in every topic that follows.

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