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在给定的时刻，一次（或多次）之后发生的现金（现金流）的价值（总和）称为现值。这个概念反映了金钱的时间价值，以及金融风险等诸多因素。现值计算为发生时间不同的现金流提供了基准相同的比较方法，因而被应用于商业和经济学中。

is the value on a given date of a future payment or series of future payments, discounted to reflect the time value of money and other factors such as investment risk. Present value calculations are widely used in business and economics to provide a means to compare cash flows at different times on a meaningful "like to like" basis.

背景

如果有机会在“今天得到一百元”和“一年后得到一百元”之间选择——实际利率为正，除时间外两者条件完全相同——一个理性人毫无疑问将会选择“今天得到一百元”。这类现象被经济学家称为时间偏好。时间偏好可以用拍卖无风险债券（比如美国国债）来度量：如果一张一年期面值100元的债券，其拍卖价格是80元，那么一年后的100元其现值就是80元。这种差异的产生，是因为持有人可以将钱存入银行或通过其他安全的投资途径来产生收益。

If offered a choice between $100 today or $100 in one year and there is a positive real interest rate throughout the year ceteris paribus, a rational person will choose $100 today. This is described by economists as Time Preference. Time Preference can be measured by auctioning off a risk free security - like a US Treasury bill. If a $100 note, payable in one year, sells for $80, then the present value of $100 one year in the future is $80. This is because you can invest your money today in a bank account or any other (safe) investment that will return you interest.

人们对于所持有的资金有两种支配方式：消费和储蓄。以储蓄代替消费所获得的补偿就是，可以从银行（债务人）处获得利息，即资金价值是增长的。

An investor who has some money has two options: to spend it right now or to save it. But the financial compensation for saving it (and not spending it) is that the money value will accrue through the interest that he or she will receive from a borrower (the bank account on which he has the money deposited).

不过，为了衡量现时的金钱在一段给定时间后的价值，经济学上采用＂复利＂来计算。如今的多数精算计算中默认采用无风险利率，对应最低保障利率，如银行储蓄账户所能提供者。若要从购买力角度衡量，应该使用实际利率（名义利率减去通货膨胀率）计算。

Therefore, to evaluate the real value of an amount of money today after a given period of time, economic agents compound the amount of money at a given (interest) rate. Most actuarial calculations use the risk-free interest rate which corresponds the minimum guaranteed rate provided by your bank's saving account for example. If you want to compare your change in purchasing power, then you should use the real interest rate (nominal interest rate minus inflation rate).

计算现时金钱未来价值过程（比如，今天的100元五年后价值几何？）称为累积（capitalization）。相反的过程——计算未来金钱的现时价值，比如五年后的100元相当于今天的多少钱——称为折现。

The operation of evaluating a present value into the future value is called a capitalization (how much $100 today are worth in 5 years?). The reverse operation—evaluating the present value of a future amount of money—is called a discounting (how much $100 that I will receive in 5 years—at a lottery for example—are worth today?).

由此可见，上面提到的问题——如果有机会在“今天得到一百元”和“一年后得到一百元”之间选择——理性的选择是得到现时的现金100元。如果付款时间不得不推后到一年后，假设储蓄利率是5%，则需要付出至少105元才能等同于现时付出100元（现在的100元与一年后的105元等价）。因为如果现在将100元现金存入银行，一年后储蓄人将得到105元。

It follows that if one has to choose between receiving $100 today and $100 in one year, the rational decision is to cash the $100 today. If the money is to be received in one year and assuming the savings account interest rate is 5%, the person has to be offered at least $105 in one year so that two options are equivalent (either receiving $100 today or receiving $105 in one year). This is because if you cash $100 today and deposit in your savings account, you will have $105 in one year.

Calculation

The most commonly applied model of the time value of money is compound interest. To someone who can lend or borrow for $\,t\,$ years at an interest rate $\,i\,$ per year (where interest of "5 percent" is expressed fully as 0.05), the present value of the receiving $\,C\,$ monetary units $\,t\,$ years in the future is:

$C_{t}=C(1+i)^{-t}\,={\frac {C}{(1+i)^{t}}}\,$

This is also found from the formula for the future value with negative time.

The purchasing power in today's money of an amount C of money, t years into the future, can be computed with the same formula, where in this case i is an assumed future inflation rate.

The expression $\,(1+i)^{-t}$ enters almost all calculations of present value. Where the interest rate is expected to be different over the term of the investment, different values for $\,i\,$ may be included; an investment over a two year period would then have PV of:

$\mathrm {PV} ={\frac {C}{(1+i_{1})(1+i_{2})}}\,$

Technical details

Present value is additive. The present value of a bundle of cash flows is the sum of each one's present value.

In fact, the present value of a cashflow at a constant interest rate is mathematically the same as the Laplace transform of that cashflow evaluated with the transform variable (usually denoted "s") equal to the interest rate. For discrete time, where payments are separated by large time periods, the transform reduces to a sum, but when payments are ongoing on an almost continual basis, the mathematics of continuous functions can be used as an approximation.

Choice of interest rate

The interest rate used is the risk-free interest rate. If there are no risks involved in the project, the rate of return from the project must equal or exceed this rate of return or it would be better to invest the capital in these risk free assets. If there are risks involved in an investment this can be reflected through the use of a risk premium. The risk premium required can be found by comparing the project with the rate of return required from other projects with similar risks. Thus it is possible for investors to take account of any uncertainty involved in various investments.

Annuities, perpetuities and other common forms

Many financial arrangements (including bonds, other loans, leases, salaries, membership dues, annuities, straight-line depreciation charges) stipulate structured payment schedules, which is to say payment of the same amount at regular time intervals. The term "annuity" is often used to refer to any such arrangement when discussing calculation of present value. The expressions for the present value of such payments are summations of geometric series.

A cash flow stream with a limited number (n) of periodic payments (C), receivable at times 1 through n, is an annuity. Future payments are discounted by the periodic rate of interest (i). The present value of this ordinary annuity is determined with this formula:

$PV\,=\,{\frac {C}{i}}\cdot [1-{\frac {1}{\left(1+i\right)^{n}}}]$ $\mathrm {=} {C}{\frac {1-(1+i)^{-n}}{i}}\,$

where:

$\,n\,$ = number of years

$\,C\,$ = Amount of cash flows

This formula is usable when the cash flows are spread over the different but in equal intervals and also the amount of these flows is same say $100 at the end of each year from year one to ten. the $\,i\,$ is defined as interest rate / required rate of return

A periodic amount receivable indefinitely is called a perpetuity, although few such instruments exist. The present value of a perpetuity can be calculated by taking the limit of the above formula as n approaches infinity. The bracketed term reduces to one leaving:

$PV\,=\,{\frac {C}{i}}$

The first formula is found from subtracting from the latter result the present value of a perpetuity delayed n periods.

These calculations must be applied carefully, as there are underlying assumptions:

• That it is not necessary to account for price inflation, or alternatively, that the cost of inflation is incorporated into the interest rate.
• That the likelihood of receiving the payments is high — or, alternatively, that the default risk is incorporated into the interest rate.

See time value of money for further discussion.

See also

• Capital budgeting
• Lifetime value
• Net present value
• Future value
• Time value of money