2016年ACCAF9《财务管理》重要知识点讲解.docVIP

2016年ACCA F9《财务管理》重要知识点讲解（2） ACCA考试 F9内含报酬率法 Internal Rate of Return (IRR) method Often an entity would want to establish its internal rate of a project for various reasons e.g., for decision-making purposes. By IRR we mean a rate that will be used to discount future cash inflows to make the total of the present values equal the cost of the project. The attempt being made under IRR is to find a rate that will equate the NPV of a project to be zero. The IRR therefore is the maximum rate of discount that will be used to finance a project without making a loss from it. Again in a mutually exclusive situation, the project that has the highest IRR is the one to recommend. The reason being that the IRR is showing the highest rate that can be used to finance a project without incurring a loss from it. Students often suggest to the author that the IRR should be called the break-even rate. His reply to them is often, if this makes you understand IRR you should use that term for it. In order to find the IRR manually, this is done by the trial and error approach. By this we mean using a discount rate which gives a positive NPV and another rate which gives a negative NPV. Then apply the formula: IRR = A + a x (B ? A) a + b Where: A = The lower discount rate which gives the positive NPV B = The higher discount rate which gives the negative NPV a = The value of the positive NPV b = The value of the negative NPV Please note that a and b should be added together as the negative sign in b is ignored. Now let us demonstrate these various methods using a case from a fictitious company we shall call AICO Plc. Case Senior management of AICO Plc have identified that there is a strategic need for a replacement machine to be acquired in one of their production departments. They have to make a choice between two models ofthe machine ? model 1 is called Super and model 2 is called Deluxe. They are unsure as to which of the two models they should buy. They have given you the fol