If your business makes investments in equipment and employee benefit contributions, you may need to track the average annual rate of return over a span of time for financial reporting obligations.

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Making good investments in projects and long-term assets is an important part of growing a small business. You can use internal rate of return, or IRR, to help you make such investment decisions. IRR ...