Capital investment analysis for engineering and management
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Capital investment analysis for engineering and management
(Prentice-Hall international series in industrial and systems engineering)
Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2005
3rd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Other authors: William G. Sullivan, Dennis J. Kulonda, John A. White
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For undergraduate and graduate courses in capital investment decision methodologies particularly in Engineering and Engineering Management. With a profit-making viewpoint, this state-of-the-art guide offers excellent coverage of engineering economic analysis. The third edition is updated to include the increasing usefulness of Excel-based spreadsheets instead of tabled factors for intricate computations and decisions.
Table of Contents
Part One: Basic Concepts: Value, Cost and Accounting
Chapter 1: Value Creation and Financial Accounting
Chapter 2: Cost Measurement and the Cost Accounting System
Chapter 3: Relevant Costs and Revenues and Estimating
Part Two: Basic Capital Investment Analysis: Applications
Chapter 4: Computations Involving Interest
Chapter 5: Equivalent Worth Methods for Comparing Alternatives
Chapter 6: Rate of Return Methods for Comparing Alternative
Chapter 7: Consideration of Depreciation and Income Taxes
Chapter 8: Dealing with Price Changes in Capital Investment Analysis
Chapter 9: Replacement Analysis
Chapter 10: New Product and Expansion Analysis
Chapter 11: Capital Planning and Budgeting
Part Three: Capital Investment Analyses in an Uncertain World Formal Assessments
Chapter 12: Introduction to Risk and Uncertainty
Chapter 13: Sensitivity Analysis
Chapter 14: Analytical and Simulation Approaches to Risk Analysis
Chapter 15: Decision Criteria and Methods for Risk and Uncertainty
Chapter 16: Decision Tree Analysis
Part Four: Specialized Topics in Capital Investment Analysis
Chapter 17: Capital Investment Decisions as Options
Chapter 18: Activity-Based Costing and Management
Chapter 19: Multi-Attribute Decision Making and the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Appendix: Interest Tables, etc.
Inside Front Cover: Glossary of Commonly Used Symbols and Abbreviations for Capital Investment Analysis
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