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  2. Internal rate of return - Wikipedia

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    Internal rate of return (IRR) is a method of calculating an investment's rate of return. The term internal refers to the fact that the calculation excludes external factors, such as the risk-free rate, inflation, the cost of capital, or financial risk. The method may be applied either ex-post or ex-ante. Applied ex-ante, the IRR is an estimate ...

  3. Minimum acceptable rate of return - Wikipedia

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    In business and for engineering economics in both industrial engineering and civil engineering practice, the minimum acceptable rate of return, often abbreviated MARR, or hurdle rate is the minimum rate of return on a project a manager or company is willing to accept before starting a project, given its risk and the opportunity cost of forgoing other projects. [1]

  4. Modified internal rate of return - Wikipedia

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    The modified internal rate of return (MIRR) is a financial measure of an investment's attractiveness. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is used in capital budgeting to rank alternative investments of unequal size. As the name implies, MIRR is a modification of the internal rate of return (IRR) and as such aims to resolve some problems with the IRR.

  5. Chisanbop - Wikipedia

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    The three fingers on the left hand represent 10+10+10 = 30; the thumb and one finger on the right hand represent 5+1=6. Counting from 1 to 20 in Chisanbop. Each finger has a value of one, while the thumb has a value of five. Therefore each hand can represent the digits 0-9, rather than the usual 0-5.

  6. Tail value at risk - Wikipedia

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    Closed-form formulas exist for calculating TVaR when the payoff of a portfolio or a corresponding loss = follows a specific continuous distribution. If X {\displaystyle X} follows some probability distribution with the probability density function (p.d.f.) f {\displaystyle f} and the cumulative distribution function (c.d.f.) F {\displaystyle F ...

  7. Back-of-the-envelope calculation - Wikipedia

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    A back-of-the-envelope calculation is a rough calculation, typically jotted down on any available scrap of paper such as an envelope. It is more than a guess but less than an accurate calculation or mathematical proof. The defining characteristic of back-of-the-envelope calculations is the use of simplified assumptions.

  8. Q. R. Hand Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Quentin Roosevelt Hand, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1937. [2] [5] His father, Dr. Quentin Roosevelt Hand, a native of Savannah, Georgia who was educated at Columbia, operated Hand's Ethical Pharmacy in Harlem, [6] [7] and his mother, Catherine Elizabeth Chestnut, [8] [9] was a writer. [4]

  9. Latrine (poem) - Wikipedia

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    On the one hand, public defecation means breaking one of the strongest taboos of civilization and a deep cultural humiliation. On the other hand, Hölderlin and his poem Andenken represent the world of poetry, serenity, humanity, and beauty, which seems so alien in the presence of the prisoner that it is only possible as a quotation. The "crazy ...