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The answer you get for this calculation represents your NPV — the net amount of money that your investment will make compared to the alternate investment that gave you the discount rate.
If your discount rate is close to the actual return rate you can get on your money for an alternate investment of similar risk and your future cash inflows are close to the amounts of money you'll actually make from your investment, your NPV calculation will be right on the money.
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In general, if the NPV for your investment is a positive number, then your investment will be more profitable than putting the money in your alternate investment and you should accept it.
If the NPV is negative, your money is better invested elsewhere, and your proposed investment should be rejected.
You can find your investment's IRR with the NPV equation by solving for i when NPV = 0, but this requires complex math if you're analyzing more than one time period (t >1).
Choose an annual discount rate for your series of cash flows before you calculate NPV.
NPV means you calculate the total revenue for your bank over those years and the total number goes to your profits & losses account for that year.
As noted above, the accuracy of any NPV calculation basically depends on the accuracy of the values you use for your discount rate and your future cash inflows.
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