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IRR

Basic Overview

Description

Internal rate of return (IRR) is a metric of profitability for potential investments. Internal rate of return is a discount rate that sets the net present value (NPV) of all future cash flows the investment equal to zero. An approximate solution is found using numerical iteration.

Signature

IRR(Node [, Guess])


Parameters

  • Node: Yearly Cash Flows. At least one of the cash flows must be negative and at least one positive.

  • Guess: (optional, defaults to 10%) is a first guess at the rate.

Example

We have project with following cash-flows.

'CF'=

Year

CF

2018

-10000

2019

1155

2020

5000

2021

7000

Our goal is to find a discount rate with which the discounted cash flows sum-up to zero:

IRR('CF')=

Year

Totals

2020

-23%

2021

12%

The IRR function tells us the rate is 12%. The result for Cash Flows up to year 2020 is not interesting for us and can be filtered out with FILTER function.







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