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- February 18, 2014 at 12:59 pm #159244
Hi Everyone
Hope we are all geared up and studying hard for the summer 🙂
I am working through the opentuition lecture notes and I am stuck on an IRR calculation question, chapter 7 example 10
February 18, 2014 at 12:59 pm #159245you have to calculate cost of debt. the example uses discount rates of 5% and 10%. and gives an answer of 7.51%
But when I do the calculation using rates of 5% and 15% i get an answer of 7.88%
If I try again using 4% and 13% I get an answer of 7.9%
February 18, 2014 at 1:09 pm #159249How come I am getting different answers
February 18, 2014 at 5:01 pm #159296It is because the relationship is not linear.
Different guesses will give different answers, and that does not matter – you will still get full marks. (If you are more than 1% different, then you have probably made a mistake, but otherwise no problem 🙂 )
February 18, 2014 at 6:26 pm #159318Thank you John, that really helps. It has been driving me nuts!
February 18, 2014 at 6:42 pm #159319You should have watched my lecture on this for Paper F9. 🙂
Glad you are sorted anyway.
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