Interest rate characteristics will have an impact to the investing and
financing decision making since interest rate is a cost of funding and
expected outcome as well. Having the understanding of interest rate
characteristics, the most efficient cost of funding and higher expected
outcome will be resulted.
Compound interest rate is a common rate in business that has always
been modified with its compounding periods, known as effective interest
rate. In practice, the effective interest rate will be converted to the flat
interest rate so that it will be easy to do the investing and financing as
well as finding the most effective cost of funding with the highest
outcome.