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.