IRR Examples Let us use a couple of examples to show you how simple the IRR concept is. If you invested $100 and at the end of one year you recouped a total of $115 then the IRR would be 15%.

How to calculate IRR Using a program like Microsoft (MSFT -0.52%) Excel is the most efficient way to calculate IRR. Perhaps counterintuitively, to compute an IRR, first we need the formula for NPV: ...

That’s probably why 42% of financial service professionals said they’d prefer to be stuck in an elevator for three hours before doing another IRR in Excel. In this post, we’ll explore why the modern ...