Corporate Finance Calculators and Guides
8 calculators · 4 guides
This hub holds the Calcumetrics calculators and guides for capital budgeting and valuation. It is part of the wider Business & Accounting hub and is aimed at finance students, analysts and founders who need to judge whether a project or company is worth the money.
For project decisions, the NPV calculator discounts a stream of cash flows at your required return, the IRR calculator finds the rate at which NPV is zero, and the payback and discounted payback calculators show how long it takes to recover the investment. For valuation, the WACC calculator builds a discount rate from the cost of equity and after-tax cost of debt, and the DCF calculator values a business from projected free cash flow plus a terminal value. The present value and future value calculators handle single amounts and series, which underpin all of the above.
The guides explain when NPV and IRR disagree, how to build a WACC step by step, how terminal value dominates most DCF models, and why discounted payback is a stricter test than simple payback. Each calculator shows its formula and a worked example, and runs entirely in your browser.
Part of the Business & Accounting hub.
Capital budgeting
NPV Calculator
Calculate Net Present Value of a series of cash flows at a given discount rate.
GlobalIRR Calculator
Calculate the Internal Rate of Return for a series of cash flows using numerical iteration.
GlobalPayback Period Calculator
Calculate how long it takes to recover an initial investment from projected cash flows.
GlobalDiscounted Payback Period Calculator
Calculate the time required to recover an investment using discounted cash flows.
Guides
- NPV vs. IRR: How to Resolve Conflicting Signals in Capital BudgetingWhy NPV and IRR give conflicting project rankings, how the reinvestment rate assumption distorts IRR, and how to find the Fisher crossover rate with formulas.
- Payback Period vs. Discounted Payback Period: Why Ignoring the Time Value of Money Misleads InvestorsCompare standard Payback Period with Discounted Payback Period. Learn how factoring in cost of capital and time value prevents flawed capital allocation.
Valuation and cost of capital
WACC Calculator
Calculate Weighted Average Cost of Capital from equity, debt, and tax rate inputs.
GlobalDCF Calculator
Calculate the intrinsic value of an investment using the Discounted Cash Flow method.
GlobalPresent Value Calculator
Calculate the present value of a future cash flow using a chosen discount rate.
GlobalFuture Value Calculator
Calculate the future value of a present amount or cash-flow series at a chosen growth rate.
Guides
- How to Calculate WACC: The Formula, Capital Structure Weights, and Real-World HurdlesMaster the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) formula. Learn CAPM cost of equity, after-tax cost of debt, and capital structure weights.
- Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Valuation: How Terminal Value Drives 70% of Company WorthLearn how to model Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) valuations, forecast Free Cash Flow to Firm (FCFF), and accurately calculate Terminal Value.
How to choose a corporate finance calculator
Start with the discount rate. The WACC calculator gives the blended cost of capital that most firms use as the hurdle rate for new projects. Feed that rate into the NPV calculator: a positive NPV means the project earns more than it costs to fund. The IRR calculator returns the rate at which NPV is zero, which is easier to compare across projects but can mislead when cash flows change sign more than once.
For a quick risk check, payback period shows how many years it takes to recover the outlay, and discounted payback does the same after discounting, so it is never shorter. To value a whole business, the DCF calculator adds a terminal value to projected cash flows. Present value and future value handle single amounts, such as what a payment due in five years is worth today.