1: CZ Financial models used in appraising the most recent ICT project Model: (n = 74) Ranked (a) (b) 1st 2nd Payback discounted + conventional * 66 63 37 20 Payback (conventional / non-discounted 48 46 27 14 figures) (PB) Net Present Value (NPV) 29 27 15 6 Return on investment / Accounting rate 24 22 13 4 of return (ROI/ARR) Discounted Payback (using discounted 18 17 10 6 figures) (DPB) Internal Rate of Return + Modified 14 12 4 4 Internal Rate of Return * Internal Rate of Return (IRR) 14 12 4 4 Other 5 4 3 0 Profitability Index (PI) 5 4 1 1 Modified Internal Rate of Return
(MIRR) 0 0 0 0 Model: Ranked Ranking 3rd 4th Payback discounted + conventional * 6 0 2.
Consequently, financial economists and investors use a wide variety of terms to describe returns in these different contexts, such as total return, holding-period return, annualized return, simple return, compound return, arithmetic average return, geometric average return, time-weighted return, dollar-weighted return, nominal return, real (inflation-adjusted) return, risk-adjusted return, after-tax return, taxable-equivalent return, internal rate of return, and various modified internal rate of return
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, price or yield of bonds, Depreciation (Straight-line, Declining Balance, and Sum of Years), unit and currency conversions, percent change, markups and ma rkdowns, profit margin, a Black-Scholes option pricing worksheet, and so on.