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present value
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present value
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(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) the current capital value of a future income or outlay or of a series of such incomes or outlays. It is computed by the process of discounting at a predetermined rate of interest


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The weighted (by the probability of death for each age) sum of all the possible net present values gives us the expected net present value.
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