Manuals/calci/XIRR

XIRR (CashFlowEvents,Dates,StartGuess,Accuracy,NoOfIterations)

• $CashFlowEvents$ is the array of values.
• $Dates$ is the date value.
• $StartGuess$ is the starting number is close to the result of XIRR.
• $Accuracy$ is the accuracy value.
• $NoOfIterations$ is the number of iterations.
  • XIRR(), returns the internal rate of return for a schedule of cash flows that is not necessarily periodic

Description

• This function gives the internal rate of return for a series.
• In this function the cash flows that occur at uniform intervals which means that is not necessarily periodic.
• To calculate the internal rate of return for a series in a periodic time ,we can use the IRR function.
• $XIRR$ is the $IRR$ when the periodicity between cash flows is not equal.
• $XIRR$ function uses the iterative process to calculate the returns, so it is not possible to trial by hand.
• So this is most powerful function in CALCI.
• In $XIRR(CashFlowEvents,Dates,StartGuess,Accuracy,NoOfIterations)$ ,$CashFlowEvents$ is an values which is the array or a reference to cells that contain numbers for which you want to calculate the internal rate of return.
• $CashFlowEvents$ must have atleast one positive and one negative value to find the internal rate of return.
• Normally the first payment is optional,so the corresponding payment that occurs at the beginning of the investment.
• Then the first payment should be negative value.
• $Dates$ is the date value which is indicating the schedule of the payment.
• Also the first payment date is the beginning of the schedule of payments.
• And date should entered in DATE function format.
• $StartGuess$ is the guess which is indicating the number that you guess is close to the result of $XIRR$.
• $Accuracy$ is the accuracy value .
• $NoOfIterations$ is the number of iterations.
• suppose when we are omitting the value of $NoOfIterations$,by default it will consider as 10.
• The value of $CashFlowEvents$ can be array or reference argument contains text, logical values or empty cells, the values which are ignored.
• The $StartGuess$ value is optional, when we are omitting the $StartGuess$ value,by default it will consider the value as 10%(0.1).
• This function is using iterative technique, so we can't find a result after 100 iterations.
• So the rate is changed until:

    di=the ith, or last,payment date.
    d1=the 0th payment date.
    Pi=the ith or last payment.

• The rate of return calculated by $XIRR$ is the interest rate corresponding to $XNPV=0$.
• This function will give the result as error when

  1. Any date is not a valid date or not in a date function format.
  2. Any date is precedes the starting date.
  3. Also CashFlowEvents and Dates is having different number of values.

Examples

Spreadsheet

	A	B
1	-25000	2/1/2012
2	5700	5/12/2012
3	4900	10/28/2012
4	13500	1/16/2013
5	10000	4/3/2013

1. =XIRR(A1:A5,B1:B5,0,0.1)=0.43578123326
2. =XIRR(A1:A5,B1:B5,0,0,2) = 0.43572667130
3. =XIRR(A1:A5,B1:B5,1,5,0) =0.18336350930

Related Videos

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See Also

• IRR
• NPV
• RATE
• MIRR

References

• Xirr

• List of Main Z Functions

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