Loans amortization

For income tax purposes, you can calculate the principal and interest in each payment. For example, at the end of the first month, the interest paid is 35,000 (0.008750) - 306.25 and the principal paid is 325.00 - 306.25 — 18.75, so that the principal balance for the next month s interest calculation is 34,981.25. Iteration of this procedure (best done on a computer) yields the amortization schedule for the loan. 

All debt contracts require payment of interest on the loan and repayment of the principal (either at the end of the loan period or amortized over the period of the loan). Interest payments are a fixed cost, and if a company defaults on these payments, then its ability to borrow money will be drastically reduced. Since interest is deducted from earnings, the greater the leverage of the company, the higher the risk to future earnings, and hence to future cash flows and the financial solvency of the company. In the worst case, the company could be declared bankrupt and the assets of the company sold off to repay the debt. Finance managers therefore carefully adjust the amount of debt owed by the company so that the cost of servicing the debt (the interest payments) does not place an excessive burden on the company. 

The annual capital charge ratio is the fraction of the principal that must be paid out each year to fully repay the principal and all accumulated interest over the life of the investment. This is the same formula used for calculating payments on home mortgages and other loans where the principal is amortized over the loan period. 

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Amortization - A payment plan by which a loan is reduced through monthly payments of principal and interest. 

Because a GPM s initial payments are below the market level for the specified fixed rate, they include little or no repayment of principal. In fact, they may not even cover the amount of interest due. In that case, the interest owed is added to the principal of the loan. The outstanding balance may thus increase during the early years of the mortgage, a process known as negative amortization. The higher payments in the remainder of the mortgage term are designed to pay off the entire balance by maturity. 

Conduits are commercial lending entities set up solely to generate collateral to be used in securitization. They are required by more-frequent issuers. The major investment banks have all established conduit arms. Conduits are responsible for originating collateral that meets the investor s requirements on loan type (whether amortizing or balloon, and so on), loan term, geographic spread of the properties, and the time that the loans were struck. Generally, pool diversification in terms of size and location is desirable, since this reduces the default risk for the investor. After it has generated the collateral, the conduit structures the deal with terms similar to those of CMOs but with the additional features described in this section. 

Loans have less uniform terms than bonds, varying widely in their interest dates, amortization schedules, reference indexes, reset dates, maturities, and so on. How their terms are defined affects the analysis of cash flows. 

The principal-repayment profile and expected amortization of the underlying loans... 

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Contemporary observers were stunned by the high annual dividends the leading dyestuffs firms paid from the 1890s to World War I between 18 and 26%. ° But hidden assets, for times of economic crisis like that after 1873, loans to pay back, a quick amortization of plants and equipment, and piling up of reserves, increased real fixed capital, so that paid dividends did not reflect the real value of these firms. Probably dividends should be halved to reach a serious level of valuation. More significantly, these dividends were paid by oligopolistic firms that had divided the German mar-... 

For example, if i = 0.08, and n = 30, the formula shows that the annual payments are 8.88% of the principal borrowed. Based on 4200/kW, these amortization costs amount to 373/year/kW, or 448 million/year for a 1200 MW plant. The factor for a 6% loan over 20 years is quite similar, 8.72%. 

Once the loan is paid off, after the 30-year period, for the remainder of the plant lifetime there will be no payments to the bank. During those latter years of operation, the only costs that the plant operator will incur will be normal operating costs, including the cost of fuel. Many of the 104 operating nuclear power plants in the United States now are in this situation, being free of the burden of the amortization costs. However, major maintenance and repair costs, such as steam generator replacements, may also be amortized, adding capital costs later in the plant life. 

ABS performance is largely dependent on consumer credit performance, and so, typical ABS structures include trigger mechanisms (to accelerate amortization) and reserve accounts (to cover interest shortfalls) to safeguard against poor portfolio performance. Though there is no basic difference in terms of the essential structure between CDO and ABS/MBS, some differences arise by the very nature of the collateral and the motives of the issuer. Interestingly, whereas a CDO portfolio will have 100—200 loans, for example, ABS portfolios will often have... 

For specialized credit card banks, particularly in the United States, the ABS market has become the primary vehicle to fund the substantial volume of unsecured credit loans to consumers. Credit card pools are differentiated from other types of ABS in that loans have no predetermined term. A single obligors credit card debt is often no more than six months, so the structure has to differ from other ABS in that repayment speed needs to be controlled either through scheduled amortization or the inclusion of a revolving period (where principal collections are used to purchase additional receivables). 

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