Why Financial Management Rate of Return is used by Investment Analysts

Why Financial Management Rate of Return is used by Investment Analysts: "Financial management rate of return (or FMMR) is a return that was conceived (I do believe) by the Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute (CIREI) and is taught to students seeking the CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member) designation. So I'll give the CIREI the credit for the financial management rate of return with the reservation that I might be mistaken and it originated elsewhere. Fair enough.

Okay, so what exactly is a financial management rate of return, what does it signify exactly, and how do you compute it?

The idea behind the return is that investors often are confronted with selecting among alternate investments which internal rate of return (IRR) doesn't adequately provide and therefore this return was introduced so investors can make par basis ('apples-to-apples') comparisons between investments." ...