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Capital budgeting





                           Internal rate of return (IRR)





               5.1 IRR technique

               IRR calculates the rate of return at which a project has an NPV of zero.



                  NPV











                                             Estimated
                                             IRR






                                                      Discount rate
                 0                                    %
                            5       10       15        20




                                                        NPV
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