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Common calculations
- IRR from MOIC and holding period See how a return multiple changes with the time it takes to earn it.
- Enterprise value to equity value Bridge business value to the equity purchase price.
- Sponsor equity required Calculate the equity needed after debt and rollover.
- Working-capital adjustment Compare closing working capital with the agreed peg.
- LP and GP distributions Work through a whole-fund distribution waterfall.
- Personal carried-interest estimate Estimate your share of a carry pool under stated fund assumptions.
Advanced worksheets
- Public Market Equivalent (PME) Did dated private-fund cash flows outperform a selected public benchmark?
- Fee drag How do fees, expenses, and carry change gross cash flows into net LP returns?
- Cash-flow aggregation How do multiple deal or fund cash-flow streams roll into one portfolio return?
- Return attribution scenarios Which operating, multiple, and balance-sheet assumptions drive the change in equity value?
- Management equity How do entered vesting, participation, hurdle, or strike terms change a simplified management proceeds scenario?
- Covenant scenarios How does a downside case change covenant headroom across reporting periods?
Deal and fund references
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Tool coverage and availability
- Connected systems
- 4
- Calculator engines
- 5
- Advanced workbenches
- 6
- Public evidence records
- 7
Live does not mean every related question has one generic answer.
- Available now
- The public tool or reference works today within the boundary shown on its page.
- Mapped only
- The topic is indexed in a research register, but it has not been turned into guidance or a tool.
- Source, method or document required
- A current source, named calculation method or governing agreement must control before an answer is built.
What each tool handles and where it stops
How to use the tools together
- 01Screen the opportunity.Deal Judgment
Deal Judgment identifies the gate, unresolved evidence and authorized next decision.
- 02Calculate the economics.Returns Lab
Returns Lab applies the selected method to disclosed inputs and keeps agreement-dependent questions explicit.
- 03Check the fund context.Fund Mechanics
Fund Mechanics separates the deal from vehicle economics, governing terms and fund-clock incentives.
- 04Test the claim.Evidence Atlas
Evidence Atlas shows whether a teaching point is supported, qualified, method-dependent or historical only.
Public tools, explicit inputs, no hidden authority.
Use synthetic or sanitized information. The tools provide educational calculations, structure and evidence review, not investment, legal, tax or regulatory advice. Governing agreements, current primary sources and authorized decision-makers control live work.
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