Cost estimator's reference manual
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Cost estimator's reference manual
（New dimensions in engineering）
Wiley, c1995
2nd ed
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Description
In today's hypercompetitive global marketplace, accurate costestimating is crucial to bottom-line results. Nowhere is this moreevident than in the design and development of new products andservices. Among managing engineers responsible for developingrealistic cost estimates for new product designs, the number-onesource of information and guidance has been the Cost Estimator'sReference Manual.
Comprehensive, authoritative, and practical, the Manual instructsreaders in the full range of cost estimating techniques andprocedures currently used in the fields of development, testing,manufacturing, production, construction, software, generalservices, government contracting, engineering services, scientificprojects, and proposal preparation. The authors clearly explain howto go about gathering the data essential to preparing a realisticestimate of costs and guide the reader step by step through eachprocedure.
This new Second Edition incorporates a decade of progress in themethods, procedures, and strategies of cost estimating. All thematerial has been updated and five new chapters have been added toreflect the most recent information on such increasingly importanttopics as activity-based costing, software estimating,design-to-cost techniques, and cost implications of new concurrentengineering and systems engineering approaches to projects.
Indispensable to virtually anyone whose work requires accurate costestimates, the Cost Estimator's Reference Manual will be especiallyvaluable to engineers, estimators, accountants, and contractors ofproducts, projects, processes, and services to both government andindustry.
The essential ready-reference for the techniques, methods, andprocedures of cost estimating
COST ESTIMATOR'S REFERENCE MANUAL Second Edition
Indispensable for anyone who depends on accurate cost estimates forengineering projects, the Cost Estimator's Reference Manual guidesthe user through both the basic and more sophisticated aspects ofthe estimating process. Authoritative and comprehensive, the Manualseamlessly integrates the many functions--accounting, financial,statistical, and management--of modern cost estimating practice.Its broad coverage includes estimating procedures applied to suchareas as:
* Production
* Software
* Development
* General services
* Testing
* Government contracting
* Manufacturing
* Engineering
* Proposal preparation
* Scientific projects
* Construction
This updated and expanded Second Edition incorporates all the mostimportant recent developments in cost estimating, such asactivity-based costing, software estimating, design-to-costtechniques, computer-aided estimating tools, concurrentengineering, and life cycle costing.
For engineers, estimators, accountants, planners, and others whoare involved in the cost aspects of projects, the Cost Estimator'sReference Manual is an invaluable information source that will payfor itself many times over.
Table of Contents
Fundamentals of Cost Estimating.
Activity-Based Costing and Traditional Cost AllocationStructures.
Statistical Techniques in Cost Estimation.
Discounted Cash Flow Analysis.
Learning Curves and Progress Functions.
Detailed Cost Estimating.
Parametric Estimating.
Risk Analysis for Cost/Schedule/Technical Performance.
Design to Cost.
Construction Cost Estimating.
Cost Estimating in Manufacturing.
Cost Implications of Systems/Concurrent Engineering.
Aspects Affecting Cost Estimation in Government Procurement.
Computer-Aided Cost Estimating.
The Software Acquisition Process.
Software Development Effort Estimating.
Software Life Cycle Cost Estimation.
Artificial Intelligence in Cost Estimating.
Cost Estimating as a Profession.
Dictionary of Estimating Terms.
Index.
by "Nielsen BookData"
