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MBA in a Nutshell #28 – Accounting and Finance : Investment Appraisal
By Growing your tree of prosperity  •  March 11, 2020
Today we will look at various ways to internally appraise projects in a company. These frameworks are more appropriate for business administrators but they can be modified for use by some investors.

Let us begin with common metrics :

a) Net Present Value (NPV)

NPV =  Cash Outflow - Present value of incoming cashflow

This is the most basic of all investment appraisal techniques. Where the NPV is a positive number ( such as +$10,000 ), the project is viable. Where it is negative, you are likely to be throwing good money after bad projects. This can be manipulated by projecting a different future incoming cashflow and lowering the discount rate in the calculations.

b) Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

This measure calculates the proper discount rate that would set the NPV measurement of zero. On a spreadsheet, the IRR() and XIRR() functions can perform this calculation separately. When you use IRR you no longer have...
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I have recently completed my Juris Doctor and I am waiting to be called by the Singapore Bar. For the past 15 years I was an IT manager and I have worked in multinationals, financial exchanges, trade unions and even a government agency. I started my career as an AS/400 administrator and moved on to manage IT projects and operations
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