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Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&NewLine;<h3>IRR Definition <&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The Internal Rate of Return is the discount rate which makes the Net Present Value&lpar;NPV&rpar; of all cash flows from a project equal to &OpenCurlyQuote;zero’&period; Internal Rate of Return can also be defined as the return on investment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Explanation <&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Internal Rate of Return indicates the feasibility of a project&period; Which means higher the Internal Rate of Return of the project&comma; the more feasible is the project to undertake&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Decision Making<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Internal Rate of Return helps a firm to decide which project to consider amongst several other projects&period; The project with the highest Internal Rate of Return would be considered the best to undertake&period; Internal Rate of Return also helps the firm in forecasting the expected profitability and growth of that particular chosen project&period;&lbrack;sky&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">In other words&comma; you can also think of Internal Rate of Return as an expected growth rate of a chosen project&period; Though the actual rate of a project may differ from the estimated Internal Rate of Return&comma; but a project with highest Internal Rate of Return will have the strongest chances of providing high growth as compared to the other available projects&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Internal Rate of Return in Securities<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Internal Rate of Return can also be used for securities&period; In security market&comma; Internal Rate of Return can also be compared with several other rate of return of different securities&period; In this case&period; Internal Rate of Return helps in forecasting the profit from a particular security&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;CALCULATIONS&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Internal Rate of Return calculation is similar to the calculation of Net Present Value &lpar;NPV&rpar;&period; Net Present Value determines present value using a predefined discount rate&period; Whereas&period; Internal Rate of Return calculates the discount rate that makes Net Present Value equal to zero&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Discount Rate&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Discount Rate can be defined as a cost of borrowing&period; The decision is based on the comparison of discount rate and Internal Rate of Return&period; The project will be accepted if the Internal Rate of Return is greater than the discount rate or cost of borrowing&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<h3>Example of Internal Rate of Return<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">ABC company needs to purchase a new machine as a replacement of their old machine&period; ABC company has available options of 2 machines which serves the same function&period; The data is as follows&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Machine A costs&&num;160&semi; &dollar; 100&comma;000 and will provide savings of &dollar; 25&comma;000 for next 5 years&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Machine B costs &dollar; 75&comma;000 and will provide savings of &dollar; 20&comma;000 for next 5 years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">ABC&&num;160&semi; company has a discount rate of 10&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>SOLUTION&colon;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;12&sol;image1&period;png"><img title&equals;"image" style&equals;"border-right&colon; 0px&semi; border-top&colon; 0px&semi; display&colon; inline&semi; border-left&colon; 0px&semi; border-bottom&colon; 0px" height&equals;"235" alt&equals;"image" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;12&sol;image&lowbar;thumb1&period;png" width&equals;"500" border&equals;"0" &sol;><&sol;a> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;12&sol;image2&period;png"><img title&equals;"image" style&equals;"border-right&colon; 0px&semi; border-top&colon; 0px&semi; display&colon; inline&semi; border-left&colon; 0px&semi; border-bottom&colon; 0px" height&equals;"538" alt&equals;"image" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;12&sol;image&lowbar;thumb2&period;png" width&equals;"500" border&equals;"0" &sol;><&sol;a> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;12&sol;image3&period;png"><img title&equals;"image" style&equals;"border-right&colon; 0px&semi; border-top&colon; 0px&semi; display&colon; inline&semi; border-left&colon; 0px&semi; border-bottom&colon; 0px" height&equals;"538" alt&equals;"image" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;12&sol;image&lowbar;thumb3&period;png" width&equals;"500" border&equals;"0" &sol;><&sol;a> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> The IRR for machine A is less than the discount rate of 10&percnt;&comma; in other words it cost more to borrow the money than the machine will return&period;&&num;160&semi; In contrast machine B has an IRR of 10&period;42&percnt;&comma; this means that the machine will return more than the cost of borrowing the money and is therefore a good investment&period; &NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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