In the next article in this two-part series, we will address issues related to optimistic or uneven cash-flow timing.
Richard Block is an adjunct professor of management accounting at Babson College and a CFO Leadership Partner at Tatum LLC, an executive consulting services firm. Dr. Jan Bell holds the Weiner Family Term Chair and is a professor of accounting at Babson College.
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Bruce Galley
Feb 23, 2009 7:53 AM ET
Re IRR methodology
Your cash inflows presumably can be best assumed to occur evenly over each time period.Hence you are overdiscounting by … more
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