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Economic & financial analysis for engineering & project management [electronic resource] / Abol Ardalan.

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"Economic and Financial Analysis for Engineering and Project Management is for engineers and others who must analyze the financial and economic ramifications of producing and sustaining capital projects. Unlike other books in the field, it offers straightforward and lucid explanations of all ma...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Ardalan, Abol
Other title:Economic and financial analysis for engineering and project management.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lancaster, Penn. : Technomic Pub. Co., ©2000.
Subjects:
Engineering economy.
Engineering > Management.
Project management.
Table of Contents:
  • Financial Analysis and Choice of Alternatives
  • Costs and Benefits
  • Importance of Time (Time Value of Money)
  • Interest Rate
  • Continuous Compounding of Interest
  • Effective Rate of Interest
  • Nominal Interest Rate
  • Equivalence
  • Cash Flow Diagram
  • Inclusion of Nonmonetary Costs and Benefits
  • Importance of Cash Flow Diagram
  • The Process of Decision Making
  • Financial Analysis Methods
  • Derivation of the Formulae
  • Present Worth
  • Present Value (PV)
  • Net Present Worth
  • Present Value of Uniform Annual Series
  • Present Value of Arithmetic Gradient Series
  • Multiple Alternatives and Equalizing Lives
  • Exclusivity
  • Future Worth
  • Future Value (FV)
  • Future Value of Uniform Annual Series
  • Multiple Alternatives
  • Annual Worth
  • Annual Worth and Equivalent Uniform Annual Worth
  • Important Point
  • EUAW of an Arithmetic Gradient
  • Multiple Projects
  • Rate of Return
  • Rate of Return
  • Multiple Alternatives and Incremental Analysis
  • Multiple Rates of Return
  • Benefit-Cost Ratio and Payback Methods
  • Benefit-Cost Ratio
  • Equalizing Lives and Incremental Analysis
  • Payback
  • Multiple Alternatives
  • Inflation
  • Inflation and Purchasing Power
  • Inflation and Interest Rate Combined
  • Inflation Adjusted Discount Rate
  • Deflation
  • General Inflation Indices
  • Tax and Depreciation
  • Effects of Income Tax
  • Depreciation, Book Value, and Capital Gain
  • Straight-Line Depreciation
  • Double Declining Balance (DDB) Depreciation.

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