Extreme Finance in Excel

luke1438

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I am attempting to back into the sales number of $2.75MM by using the NPV and IRR that have been generated on yearly cash flows. I would like to be able to say that at a certain IRR and a NPV of "0" my sales would be "X" given the certain amount of costs over a given period of time. The biggest problem is two of the costs are formulated via a percentage of the sales price. Below is an example; the yellow cell is the one I am trying to create based off of a 20% IRR, the blue numbers are the ones that are generated via direct percentages or indirectly of the sales number. I have tried everything I can think of and have spent days and tried everything Excel seems to offer. Unfortunately the Solver function does not work because this is a dynamic sheet and I will need to back into 36 different iterations testing various IRR percentages.
Book1
ABCDEF
1EndofPeriod2,0052,0062,007
2PeriorofTime2Years
3LoanProceeds1,137,500--
4SalesRevenue2,750,000
5
6interestincome@perannumrateof20.00%122,500147,000176,400
7accruetoprincipal(122,500)(147,000)(176,400)
8CostofSales1,955,625182,8751,183,875
9SellingCommission7.00%192,500
10TotalSalesCosts1,955,625182,8751,376,375
11
12
13GrossProfit(818,125)(182,875)1,373,625
14GeneralManagerFee30.00%111,788
15InitialInvestment612,500(818,125)(182,875)1,261,838
16
17newprincipalbalanceaccruinginterest612,500735,000882,0001,058,400
18IRR13.52%
19monthlygrowthrateofinvestment1.67%
20annualgrowthrateofinvestment20.00%
21presentvalueofinvestmentat20.00%($78,537.33)
Sheet1
 

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Hello Luke,
luke1438 said:
Unfortunately the Solver function does not work because this is a dynamic sheet and I will need to back into 36 different iterations testing various IRR percentages.
Funny, I was just mentioning that I had done something similar a while back...

I used goal seek on cash flows, targeting IRR levels. Unlike what you're describing, this changed everything in my model from taxes to CFs to NPVs to the IRRs themselves.

Worked very well actually, once I cranked up my iterations and minimized the 'max change' in my calculation options. Looks like you want to change f4 based on a targeted IRR and your commisions will follow, yes-no?

Indeed, back solving for a back solved function, needless to say, you probably do not want to do this with a pen and paper! Not sure where your problem lies, spreadsheet design perhaps... Sounds doable. Where's the problem again?
 
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