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Capital Investment Analysis for Engineering and Management, 3/E
John R. Canada
William G Sullivan
Dennis J. Kulonda
John A. White

ISBN-10: 013143408X
ISBN-13: 9780131434080

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2005
Format: Cloth; 624 pp
Published: 10/06/2004

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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.

  • NEW - New and Comprehensive Coverage—Provides accounting/cost accounting fundamentals to measure results.
  • NEW - New material—Introduces the concept of "options analysis" applied to capital investment decisions.
  • NEW - Aids in conducting economic analyses—Offers liberal use of spreadsheets.
  • NEW - Real management—Introduces tax considerations and their consequences.
  • NEW - Expanded coverage—New chapters on value creation and accounting/cost accounting.
  • Key Terms—Includes commonly used terms and symbols at the start of each chapter and defined at the end of the book.
  • Instructor's Solutions Manual—Complete with extra teaching ideas and case studies.
    • BENEFIT NEEDED.

  • New and Comprehensive Coverage—Provides accounting/cost accounting fundamentals to measure results.
  • New material—Introduces the concept of "options analysis" applied to capital investment decisions.
  • Aids in conducting economic analyses—Offers liberal use of spreadsheets.
  • Real management—Introduces tax considerations and their consequences.
  • Expanded coverage—New chapters on value creation and accounting/cost accounting.

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

  • Instructor's Manual, 3/E
    Canada, Sullivan, Kulonda & White
    © 2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 270 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131466909 | ISBN-13: 9780131466906


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