If your business makes investments in equipment and employee benefit contributions, you may need to track the average annual rate of return over a span of time for financial reporting obligations.

Calculating returns from your stock portfolio can be a tricky matter, especially if some of your holdings pay dividends, or you make frequent deposits and withdrawals from your account. With Excel and ...

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The internal rate of return, sometimes called the "yield criterion" or the "dollar-weighted rate of return," is a measure widely used to gauge whether an investment is worth pursuing, or in evaluating ...

I may be off with the terminology but here is what I'm trying to do. I have downloaded all of my transactions for my retirement funds for the last few years. For each transaction, I have the number of ...

When calculating the CAGR, you must first add the periods and the values for each period. To do this, you need a column focused on Years and another column focused on the Amount. If you are still ...

The Gotham Gal and I make a fair number of non-tech angel investments. Things like media, food products, restaurants, music, local businesses. In these investments we are usually backing an ...