IRR vs. NPV: which one to use to evaluate your project
✦ Avoid the most common mistake when comparing projects with IRR vs NPV
Practical guides on financial project evaluation. No academic jargon — real examples and formulas you can replicate.
Net Present Value is the number-one indicator for knowing whether your project is worth it. We walk through the formula, step by step, with a real coffee shop example.
✦ Avoid the most common mistake when comparing projects with IRR vs NPV
✦ Know exactly how many units you need to sell to stop losing money
✦ Set your minimum required rate correctly in a high-inflation context
✦ Identify the variables that most impact your business's NPV
✦ Master NPV, IRR and Payback the way industrial engineers do
✦ Present your financial analysis to pass an investor's first filter
✦ Understand what questions a financial analysis answers before you invest a single dollar
✦ Calculate simple and discounted payback — and understand why it can't be your only criterion
✦ Analyze NPV, IRR and break-even of a real restaurant in Buenos Aires
✦ Calculate the real cost of your capital with the WACC formula, step by step
✦ Where Excel delivers for feasibility and where it fails — 6 critical points
✦ Avoid the 5 mistakes that destroy a cash-flow projection
✦ 7 financial questions you must answer before quitting to start a business
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