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Difficulty calculating XIRR for investment transactions

💸 moneyproduct problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 2/5

An investor reports that the XIRR formula in Google Sheets returns a result of zero when calculating the internal rate of return for a specific sequence of investment deposits, stock purchases, sales, and withdrawals, and is unsure if the formula is correct or if their input data setup is flawed.

Who's affected: An individual investor using spreadsheet software for financial analysis

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A specialized spreadsheet template that validates cash flow sequences for XIRR before calculation
  2. A browser-based XIRR calculator tool that provides specific error feedback for common input mistakes
  3. An educational guide or plugin that visualizes the cash flow timeline to identify logic errors in investment tracking
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Real voices

“I used Google Sheet to calculate the result But the IRR result ended up as 0”

Source: Stack Exchange (money) · CC BY-SA 4.0, user-contributed content from Stack Exchange; summarized and modified

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