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Firstly, IRR is sometimes misapplied, under an assumption that interim positive cash flows are reinvested elsewhere in a different project at the same rate of return offered by the project that generated them. This is usually an unrealistic scenario and a more likely situation is that the funds will
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Like the internal rate of return, the modified internal rate of return is not valid for ranking projects of different sizes, because a larger project with a smaller modified internal rate of return may have a higher net present value. However, there exist variants of the modified internal rate of
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The formula adds up the negative cash flows after discounting them to time zero using the external cost of capital, adds up the positive cash flows including the proceeds of reinvestment at the external reinvestment rate to the final period, and then works out what rate of return would cause the
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be reinvested at a rate closer to the firm's cost of capital. The IRR therefore often gives an unduly optimistic picture of the projects under study. Generally for comparing projects more fairly, the
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To calculate the MIRR, we will assume a finance rate of 10% and a reinvestment rate of 12%. First, we calculate the present value of the negative cash flows (discounted at the finance rate):
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Secondly, more than one IRR can be found for projects with alternating positive and negative cash flows, which leads to confusion and ambiguity. MIRR finds only one value.
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magnitude of the discounted negative cash flows at time zero to be equivalent to the future value of the positive cash flows at the final time period.
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Hajdasiński, Mirosław M. (January 1995). "Remarks in the Context of 'The Case for a Generalized Net Present Value Formula'".
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Beaves, Robert G. (January 1988). "Net Present Value and Rate of Return: Implicit and Explicit Reinvestment Assumptions".
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Shull, David M. (January 1992). "Efficient Capital Project Selection Through a Yield-Based Capital Budgeting Technique".
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In this case, the answer is 25.48% (with this conventional pattern of cash flows, the project has a unique IRR).
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Second, we calculate the future value of the positive cash flows (reinvested at the reinvestment rate):
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is the number of equal periods at the end of which the cash flows occur (not the number of cash flows),
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Lin, Steven A. Y. (January 1976). "The Modified Internal Rate of Return and Investment Criterion".
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to rank alternative investments of equal size. As the name implies, MIRR is a modification of the
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The calculated MIRR (17.91%) is significantly different from the IRR (25.48%).
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If an investment project is described by the sequence of cash flows:
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should be used for reinvesting the interim cash flows.
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Index

MIRR
financial
investment
capital budgeting
internal rate of return
problems with the IRR
weighted average cost of capital
present value
future value
Spreadsheet applications
Microsoft Excel
doi
10.1080/00137917608902796
doi
10.1080/00137918808966958
Internal Rate of Return: A Cautionary Tale
doi
10.1080/00137919208903083
doi
10.1080/00137919508903144
ProQuest
206731554
Categories
Mathematical finance
Investment
Capital budgeting

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