Engineering Money
Financial Fundamentals for Engineers
Published on 15. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
196 pages
978-0-470-54601-7 (ISBN)
Description
There are many text books about engineering design and some include project evaluation techniques. There are text books on accounting methods and yet others on business management. This book does not aim to replace these specialized texts but brings together the elements of these subjects that young engineers working in industry - particularly the construction industry and its customers - need to understand.
Most engineers learn about money the hard way: by experience in the workplace. The authors having done this themselves recognized the gap in engineers' education and set out to bridge it. This book is based on a 1996 course George Solt pioneered for final-year engineering undergraduates. The book is written in an approachable style and gives young engineers as well as mature engineers an insight into the way engineering businesses run, the importance of capital and the problems of cash flow.
Reviews / Votes
"Engineering Money is an excellent book for an undergraduate course dealing with return on investment issues for any contracted project, but particularly for engineering projects. The one-liner summary items would provide excellent starting points for a spirited class discussion. Highly recommended. Lower-and-upper division undergraduates." (Choice , 1 April 2011)More details
Product info
Paperback
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-54601-7 (9780470546017)
Schweitzer Classification
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E-Book
02/2011
Wiley
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09/2010
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Persons
RICHARD HILL worked for twenty years in design and proposals in the contracting industry and served as marketing director for a specialist process plant contractor. He now runs his own independent consultancy and lectures at Cranfield University, University College London, and UNESCO-IHE in Delft, Holland.
GEORGE SOLT spent thirty years in industrial research and development serving as technical director in two-specialist process plant contracting companies before becoming a full-time academic at Cranfield University and University College London.
Content
Preface.
Chapter 1 What's It All About?
Chapter 2 Money.
Chapter 3 Measuring Money.
Chapter 4 How Things Can Go Wrong--1.
Chapter 5 Good Company.
Chapter 6 Capital.
Chapter 7 The Year's Business Plan.
Chapter 8 How Not to Go Bust.
Chapter 9 Cash Flow.
Chapter 10 What's a Contract?
Chapter 11 Conditions of Contract.
Chapter 12 How Things Can Go Wrong--2.
Chapter 13 Cost Centers.
Chapter 14 Pricing Contracts.
Chapter 15 Competitive Tendering.
Chapter 16 How Things Can Go Wrong--3.
Chapter 17 Other Types of Contracts.
Chapter 18 Terms of Payment.
Chapter 19 How Things Can Go Wrong--4.
Chapter 20 Planning Contract Execution.
Chapter 21 Procurement and Monitoring.
Chapter 22 Paying and Getting Paid.
Chapter 23 Consultants.
Chapter 24 Using Your Judgement.
Chapter 25 Health and Safety Aspects of Design.
Chapter 26 Green Engineering and Greenbacks.
Chapter 27 Research and Development.
Chapter 28 The Love of Money.
Chapter 29 Last Words.
Appendix 1 Financial Accounts.
Appendix 2 Critical Path Analysis.
Appendix 3 Project Evaluation Techniques.
Index.