AppliedMultiple choice
Which gives the highest terminal value on the same nominal rate: annual, monthly or continuous compounding?
- AAnnual, since the whole balance earns for the full year
- BContinuous
- CMonthly, because continuous compounding is only a modelling fiction
- DThey are all identical on the same nominal rate
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