I have a DataFrame of unpredictable cashflows and unpredictable period lengths, and I need to generate a backward-looking IRR.
Doing it in Excel is pretty straightforward using the solver, wondering if there's a good way to pull it off in Python. (I think I could leverage openpyxl to get solver to work in excel from python, but that feels unnecessarily cumbersome).
The problem is pretty straightforward:
NPV of Cash Flow = ((cash_flow)/(1+IRR)^years_ago)
GOAL: Find IRR where SUM(NPV) = 0
My dataframe looks something like this:
cash_flow |years_ago
-----------------------
-3.60837e+06 |4.09167
31462 |4.09167
1.05956e+06 |3.63333
-1.32718e+06 |3.28056
-4.46554e+06 |3.03889
It seems as though other IRR calculators (such as numpy.irr) assume strict period cutoffs (every 3 months, 1 year, etc), which won't work. The other option seems to be the iterative route, where I continually guess, check, and iterate, but that feels like the wrong way to tackle this. Ideally, I'm looking for something that would do this:
irr = calc_irr((cash_flow1,years_ago1),(cash_flow2,years_ago2),etc)
EDIT: Here is the code I'm running the problem from. I have a list of transactions, and I've chosen to create temporary tables by id.
for id in df_tran.id.unique():
temp_df = df_tran[df_tran.id == id]
cash_flow = temp_df.cash_flows.values
years = temp_df.years.values
print(id, cash_flow)
print(years)
#irr_calc = irr(cfs=cash_flow, yrs=years,x0=0.100000)
#print(sid, irr_calc)
where df_tran (which temp_df is based on) looks like:
cash_flow |years |id
0 -3.60837e+06 4.09167 978237
1 31462 4.09167 978237
4 1.05956e+06 3.63333 978237
6 -1.32718e+06 3.28056 978237
8 -4.46554e+06 3.03889 978237
10 -3.16163e+06 2.81944 978237
12 -5.07288e+06 2.58889 978237
14 268833 2.46667 978237
17 -4.74703e+06 1.79167 978237
20 -964987 1.40556 978237
22 -142920 1.12222 978237
24 163894 0.947222 978237
26 -2.2064e+06 0.655556 978237
27 1.23804e+06 0.566667 978237
29 180655 0.430556 978237
30 -85297 0.336111 978237
34 -2.3529e+07 0.758333 1329483
36 21935 0.636111 1329483
38 -3.55067e+06 0.366667 1329483
41 -4e+06 4.14167 1365051
temp_df looks identical to df_tran, except it only holds transactions for a single id.