Reduction in the sales price of goods and services to entice additional sales usually based on volume or other future commitments by the customer Also, see "Factoring"
The process of finding the present value of a series of future cash flows Discounting is the reverse of compounding
the process of finding the present worth of a future amount of money Generally this expression is obtained in the form of a discount factor from a set of compounding and discounting tables The underlying concept is sometimes referred to as the time value of money
the process of translating a future payment into a value in the present (chapter 16 appendix)
The process of converting investment inflows to a present value Since money has a time value, one dollar to be received in the future is worth less than one now How much less (the amount of discount) depends on: (1) the time span between the cash outflow and inflow, and (2) the necessary rate of inter discount
reducing the value of a payment, particularly scaling down the value of a future payment by a discount factor in order to calculate an equivalent present value
the process of determining the equivalent present value P of a future cash value F by calculating back in time with a given fixed interest (discount) rate i, expressed mathematically as P = F/(1 + i)t, where t is the time between the future and present frames
Calculating the present value of a future amount The process is opposite to compounding
The conversion of future dollars spent and future health outcomes (such as life years saved in 20 years from an intervention today) to their present value
The term used to describe the procedure of calculating the present value of a stream of future cash flows
This is a technique that allows the calculation of present values of inputs and benefits that accrue in the future
Reduction in the value of a security at purchase such that when it matures at full value, the investor receives a fair return 221
Reducing the costs and benefits of treatment by a fixed annual amount to take account of declining value of assets over time
An economic adjustment for the time value of money; mathematical reduction of costs and/or benefits which occur in the future to the present time for purposes of comparison
The offering to business Customers of reduced rates for the use of off-peak resources see also surcharging
is a method used by economists to determine the dollar value today of a projects future costs and benefits This is done by weighting money values that occur in the future by a value less than 1, or discounting them Because environmental decisionmakers are increasingly forced to evaluate policies with costs and benefits that will be spread out over tens -- perhaps hundreds -- of years, discounting is used to help evaluate the value of measures that deal with problems such as stratospheric ozone depletion, global climate change, and the disposal of low- and high-level radioactive wastes
Calculating the present value of a future amount Discounting is opposite to compounding
1. to discount (a note or bill). 2. to give a discount of, reduce the price by (a specified amount): Yüz bin lira ıskonto ettim. I've given a discount of one hundred thousand liras. 3. to discount, take (what someone says) with a grain of salt