calculate_moic

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Calculate the Multiple on Invested Capital (MOIC): total distributions divided by total invested, with no discounting and no time value. WHEN TO USE: for a quick money-multiple answer from a cash-flow schedule when you do not need a discount rate or annualised return. WHEN NOT TO USE: when time value of money matters (use calculate_irr for annualised return, or calculate_npv for discounted value). BEHAVIOUR: pure deterministic calculation — no side effects, no network or storage access; idempotent and non-destructive. MOIC is computed as sum of positive cash flows divided by sum of absolute negative cash flows; returns 0 if there is no invested capital. RETURNS: JSON object { moic: number rounded to 2dp (e.g. 2.5 = 2.5x), cash_flows }. PARAMETERS: cash_flows (ordered number array starting at time 0; negatives are investments, positives are distributions), e.g. [-100000, 0, 0, 0, 0, 250000].