I am trying to work out the compound anual growth rate of sales.

I have two values, and two dates. There is no initial outlay as I am only
looking at the sales revenue, so I cannot get the XIRR function to work

Divide the later sales figure by the earlier sales figure and raise the
result to one over the number of years

As an example:

Sales of 500 in 2002, in cell A2
Sales of 750 in 2004, in cell A3

Format A4 as Percent and use this formula

=(A3/A2)^(1/2)-1

gives you 22.47%


"Boney" wrote:

I am trying to work out the compound anual growth rate of sales.

I have two values, and two dates. There is no initial outlay as I am only
looking at the sales revenue, so I cannot get the XIRR function to work