IRR function to operate on a specified time period ranges

[nikolay_denisov]

Hello team

I would propose an idea of IRR function enhancement to operate on more dynamic environment and respect Anaplan time dimension in the same way asTIMESUMfunction.

Why it is necessary?

For IRR calculation when the sign of the cash flows changes more than once, for example when positive cash flows are followed by negative ones and then by positive ones (+ + − − − +), the IRR may have multiple real values. So it is essential to have an option to overview overall IRR of the full project, or have a chance to specify periods which need to be calculated. (WIKI)

Currently in Anaplan IRR applies to full timescale and "subsetting" dataset to smaller pieces would be not easy and produce sparcity and not aligned to the best practices calculations.

Proposed Syntaxis:

IRR(CF, From, To, [Ev]) where:

• CF- number formatted source of a Cash Flow
• From- Period or Date of a cashflow start
• To -Period or Date of a cashflow end
• Ev- Optional, number format for expected values of IRR

Expected benefits:

IRR becomes more customisable and could be compared similarly to EXCEL functional analogues with level of calculations customisation.

[a.dilieto]

I agree, it would be a good improvement of the IRR function!

[wwood]

Another vote for this functionality.

[Axel_H]

Agreed with this idea.

Very often we need to calculate the evolution of IRR over time and need to work with transaction lists and create a lot of sparcity.

[david.savarin]

Wouldnt it work if you switch the cf values to 0 if they are out of range of your required time series (with a conditional line item amount) ?

You have to create an additional line item in your transaction module, yet i believe it would yield what your are aiming ?

[Jcorlett]

Great suggestion that would eliminate sparsity or more complex workarounds. I'd add a request for NPV to share the same functionality; "rolling" NPV's where the 'range' and period 0 would move with the target cell. Again this would eliminate sparsity and workarounds involving the calculation of discount factors + PV's.

[Charanreddy]

Have a look into it, It might help

IRR & NPV Calculations with Initial/Start Date - Anaplan Community

[Iain_Briggs]

Thanks@Charanreddyhowever the Anaplan IRR function would still really benefit from the functionality proposed by@nikolay_denisov

For example, I am often asked for an 'inception to date' IRR. In the below screenshot, it takes seconds to do this (for every time period) using Excel's XIRR. However Anaplan's IRR function only calculates across the entire timescale in this case. Whilst yes, it can be done in Anaplan, it requires a multi-step work-around.