16.NS: Notation Summary
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% = percentage
∆% = constant growth rate per payment interval or the percent change from one period to another
∑ = summation symbol meaning to add everything up
ACD = annual cost of the bond debt
AI = accrued interest
AV = assessed value of a property
BAL = principal balance immediately after an annuity payment
BALP1 = principal balance immediately prior to the first payment in a series of annuity payments
BALP2 = principal balance immediately after the last payment in a series of annuity payments
Base = the whole quantity
BVD = book value of the bond debt
C = cost Cash Price = bond price summing market price & accrued interest
CFo = initial cash flow
CM = unit contribution margin
CPI = Consumer Price Index
CPN = nominal bond coupon rate of interest
CR = contribution rate
Current Currency = currency being converted from
CY or C/Y= compounds per year, or compounding frequency
CYNew = the new compounding frequency
CYOld = the old compounding frequency
D$ = discount amount or markdown amount
d = discount rate or markdown rate
Date Price = bond price on the interest payment date preceding the sale date
dec = any number in decimal format
Desired Currency = currency you are converting to
Discount = bond discount amount
E = expenses
Exchange Rate = per unit conversion rate for current currency
Face Value = face value
FV = maturity value or future value in dollars
FVDUE = future value of annuity due
FVORD = future value of ordinary annuity
GAvg = geometric average
GE = gross earnings
I = interest amount in dollars
i = periodic interest rate
iNew = the new periodic interest rate
INT = interest portion
INTDUE = interest portion of a due single annuity payment
INTSFDUE = the interest portion of any single annuity due sinking fund payment
iOld = the old periodic interest rate
IY or I/Y = nominal interest rate per year
L = list price ln = natural logarithm
M$ = markup amount
MM = maintained markup
MoC% = markup on cost percentage
MoS% = markup on selling price percentage
n = a frequency or count or total
N = in merchandising it is the net price; in single payment compound interest it is the number of compound periods; in annuity compound interest it is the number of annuity payments
New = the value that a quantity has become
NI = net income
NPV = net present value
NPVRATIO = net present value equivalent annual ratio
Old = the value that a quantity used to be
P = profit; or principal
PMT = annuity payment amount
PMTBOND = bond annuity payment
Portion = the part of the whole
PPD = purchasing power of a dollar
Premium = bond premium amount
PRI = bond market price
PRN = principal portion
Property Tax = property tax amount
PTR = property tax rate
PV = principal or present value
PVDUE = present value of annuity due
PVORD = present value of ordinary annuity
PY or P/Y = payments per year or payment frequency
r = interest rate (in decimal format)
Rate = portion and base relationship; sales tax rate
Remit = tax remittance
RI = real income
RoC = rate of change per time period
S = regular or unit selling price; or sum of principal/interest
SAvg = simple average
SBE = the selling price at the break-even point
Sonsale = sale price
Stax = selling price including taxes
t = time or term; time ratio
Tax Collected = total tax collected through sales
Tax Paid = total tax paid through purchases
TFC = total fixed costs
TR = total revenue
TVC = total variable cost
VC = unit variable cost
w = weighting factor
WAvg = weighted average
x = any individual piece of data
Years = the term of an annuity