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A "Discount" is a "Charge" that is paid to obtain the right to delay a payment. Essentially, the payer purchases the right to make a given payment in the future instead of in the Present. The "Discount", or "Charge" that must be paid to delay the payment, is simply the difference between what the payment amount would be if it were paid in the present and what the payment amount would be paid if it were paid in the future.

Since a person can earn a return on money by investing it, most economic models assume the "Discount Rate"^[1] is the same as the rate of return the person could receive on invested money. The person delaying payment must actually compensate the person who should be paid for the lost revenue that could be earned from an investment during the time period covered by the delay. Since an investor earns a return not only on the original principle investment, but also on the earnings made from the original investment, earnings are compounded as time moves forward into the future. Therefore, this is usually the justification for having the growth of the "Discount" compounded over the time period the payment is delayed. The “Discount Rate” is the rate growth of the “Discount”. We are essentially using compounding from the basic time value of money calculations to assess the future value of money that could be obtained in the present, and using this assessment to determine the “Discount” associated with delaying the payment until the said future date. As a result, the “Discount” that must be paid for delaying the payment of $P for t periods is

Discount&_160; &_160;= &_160; &_160;$P*(1+r)^t&_160;- &_160;$P&_160; &_160; &_160;

where $P*(1+r)^t is the future value of the payment since invested today at an r rate of return.

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