What is the better investment rule for investing in the financial markets – NPV or IRR? Why? Are there alternatives we should consider instead?

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Mutually exclusive; Net present value; Internal rate of return; Cashflows; Discount rate; Time values.

Based on the principal reasons behind economic problems, investors are forced to make decisions in order to ration out investments based on rules.

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