Calculating the internal rate of return, or IRR, of an investment is a powerful tool for businesses. When a manager is faced with a capital intensive decision, IRR can quickly compare the financial ...

As a real estate private equity firm operating in the multifamily acquisition space, my company receives an abundance of feedback and questions regarding our predictive financial modeling. One of the ...

The internal rate of return, or IRR, allows investors to analyze the profitability of investments and companies to analyze the profitability of capital outlays. The easiest way to understand IRR is by ...

I will discuss in more detail how IRR works and why investors must be careful not to view the metric as an equivalent measure to infer investment rates of return. IRR is a discount rate. It is the ...

This article was written by Paul J. Davies. It appeared first on the Bloomberg Terminal. There are lies, damned lies and statistics – and then there’s IRR. The internal rate of return metric used by ...