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Interest costs

Interest costs are a part of the cost calculation with the engineering formula. They consider the costs that have to be paid back to the bank for borrowing the money. Normally, the interest is indicated as a percentage of the borrowed sum per year.

In reality, it is calculated monthly on the base of the actual residual debt. So, it becomes less from month to month. In the last month it is nearly zero. Taken as the grand average, interest is calculated over half of the borrowed sum.

Thus, we can approximately calculate the interest costs with

•       the price of the initial investment

•       divided by 2 (to reach the average)

•       times the interest rate in percent.

(See more at TDiv PR1-C02)


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