Daniel Jassy, CFA, is an Investopedia Academy instructor and the founder of SPYderCRusher Research. He contributes to Excel and Algorithmic Trading. Compound interest is interest that's calculated on ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax ...

All of you have learned the formula to calculate the compound interest in your school. Compound and simple interests are among the mathematical applications used in real life for years. At certain ...