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
614 pages