Following my last post on the flaws of IRR—resulting from the unrealistic assumption that cash inflows get reinvested in projects with identical IRRs, I decided to investigate a formula with which I had not been very familiar, the modified internal…

As I had initially conceived (or misconceived) this series of posts on project selection measurements, this post on Internal Rate of Return (IRR) was to represent a climax, during which I’d describe the cleverness of IRR as a selection criteria.…