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Internal Rate of Return (IRR) problem

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  • February 4, 2012 at 2:26 pm #51231
    nokia
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    Hi,
    If a project has the following cash flows:

    Yr0 (100)
    Yr1 25
    Yr2 25
    Yr3 30

    What would be its IRR and how would we calculate that?

    February 4, 2012 at 7:19 pm #92708
    John Moffat
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    There is no IRR. (In theory there is, but it is negative and would be meaningless).

    The reason is that that the NPV is negative whatever the rate of interest is (even if interest rate was zero, the NPV would be negative), and therefore the project is never worth accepting.

    February 5, 2012 at 3:52 am #92709
    nokia
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    Ok… But isn’t there any way to calculate that negative IRR? How does excel calculates that?

    February 6, 2012 at 11:46 am #92710
    John Moffat
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    You can approximate it the normal way by making two guesses.

    I don’t know about excel – I never use excel for it because I am only ever doing it for exam purposes 🙂

    February 7, 2012 at 2:51 am #92711
    nokia
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    🙂 Ok thanks alot. i have calculated that finally

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