Cash Flow (Investment Appraisal) - Casio fx-9860G AU User Manual

7-4 Cash Flow (Investment Appraisal)

This calculator uses the discounted cash flow (DCF) method to perform investment appraisal
by totalling cash flow for a fixed period. This calculator can perform the following four types
of investment appraisal.
• Net present value (
• Net future value (
• Internal rate of return (
• Payback period* (
* The payback period (
When the annual interest rate (
SPP
( ).
A cash flow diagram like the one shown below helps to visualize the movement of funds.
With this graph, the initial investment amount is represented by
CF
later is shown by
Investment appraisal can be used to clearly determine whether an investment is realizing
profits that were originally targeted.
u NPV
NPV = CF
n
: natural number up to 254
u NFV
NFV = NPV × (1 + i )
u IRR
0 = CF
NPV
In this formula,
however, that minute fractional values tend to accumulate during the subsequent
calculations performed automatically by the calculator, so
IRR
exactly zero.
Cash Flow (Investment Appraisal)
NPV
)
NFV
)
IRR
)
PBP
)
PBP
) can also be called the "discounted payback period" (
I
%) is zero, the
CF
1
CF
0
, two years later by
1
CF
1
+ +
0
(1+ i) (1+ i)
n
CF CF
1
+ +
0
(1+ i) (1+ i)
= 0, and the value of
becomes more accurate the closer that
7-4-1
PBP
is called the "simple payback period"
CF
5
CF
CF 3
2 CF
4
CF
, and so on.
2
CF CF
2 3
+ + ... +
2 3
(1+ i)
CF
2 3
+ + ... +
2 3
(1+ i) (1+ i)
IRR i
is equivalent to
NPV
NPV
approaches to zero.
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CF
7
CF
6
CF
. The cash flow one year
0
I %
CF
n
i =
n
(1+ i)
100
CF
n
n
× 100. It should be noted,
never actually reaches
DPP
).