Compound Interest Formula:

Compounding can take place several times in a year, e.g. quarterly, monthly, weekly, continuously. This does not mean that the quoted interest rate is paid out that number of times a year! Assume the €500 is invested for 3 years, at 10%, but now we compound quarterly: Table 2 Quarterly Progression of Interest Earned and End-of-Quarter Value, S. ................
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