Compound interest

United States, 1985

TV show
Please note

Sorry, we don't have images or video for this item.

Episode number 14 of Series “Principles of accounting”.
Thomas Casey demonstrates how compound interest increases the time value of money. Present value and future value are explained, and how to compute simple and compound interest, which may involve the use of specially designed tables. The program concludes by showing how interest rates can be stated and how to calculate investment for the future.

Content notification

Our collection comprises over 70,000 moving image works, acquired and catalogued since the 1940s. As a result, some items and their descriptions may reflect outdated, offensive and possibly harmful views and opinions. ACMI is working to identify and redress such usages.

Learn more about our collection and our collection policy here. If you come across harmful content on our website that you would like to report, let us know.

How to watch

This work has not been digitised and is currently unavailable to view online. It may be possible for approved researchers to view.

Learn more about accessing our collection

Collection

In ACMI's collection

Credits

director

Timothy Swartz

producer

Frank Wilson

production company

Instructional Media

Penn State

WPSX-TV

Duration

00:30:00:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1985

Appears in

Principles of accounting

Group of items

Principles of accounting

Explore

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

303582

Language

English

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Accounting

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Accounting

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Economics

Educational & Instructional

Educational & Instructional → Instructional

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Accounting

Television

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Please note: this archive is an ongoing body of work. Sometimes the credit information (director, year etc) isn’t available so these fields may be left blank; we are progressively filling these in with further research.

Cite this work on Wikipedia

If you would like to cite this item, please use the following template: {{cite web |url=https://acmi.net.au/works/82432--compound-interest/ |title=Compound interest |author=Australian Centre for the Moving Image |access-date=5 October 2026 |publisher=Australian Centre for the Moving Image}}