Capital Budgeting: NPV and IRR Project Appraisal
This is a ready-made prompt from the Zayenha Prompt library in Finance & Accounting, written for claude-sonnet-4-7. It has a main prompt to copy into the model, built-in quality guards, and a verification prompt to run in a second window to review the answer. The full text needs the Plus plan; the description is open to all.
For CFOs and investment committees: a framework to appraise a capital project via NPV, IRR, and payback with sensitivity and an approval decision, without fabricating figures.
Your current plan: free
Appraising a capital expansion project before budget approval; choosing among competing projects under limited capital; stress-testing an investment decision against discount-rate changes.
Built-in quality guards
No fabricated cash flows, initial investment, or discount rate
Explicit NPV, IRR, payback formulas and structured tables
Cover cash flows, NPV, IRR, sensitivity, and decision
Appraisal referred to a SOCPA accountant and investment committee
Frequently asked questions
How do I use this prompt?
Copy the main prompt and paste it into claude-sonnet-4-7 or the model you use, replace what is in square brackets with your details, then run the verification prompt in a second window with the answer pasted in, and review it before relying on it.
Is this prompt free?
Its full text requires the Plus plan or higher. Free prompts you can copy at once without an account are on the ready-made Arabic prompts page.
Which model was this prompt written for?
It was written for claude-sonnet-4-7 and follows how that model works; you can run it on other models too, reviewing the result, since no single wording guarantees the best result on every model.