Capital Investment Analysis for Engineering and Management
3rd Edition
Published on 2. November 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
632 pages
978-0-13-143408-0 (ISBN)
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.
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John R. Canada | William G. Sullivan | John A. White
Capital Investment Analysis for Engineering and Management
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10/1995
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Content
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
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