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Contemporary Engineering Economics, 6th edition

  • Chan S Park

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Part 1: Basics of Financial Decisions

  1. Engineering Economic Decisions
  2. Accounting and Financial Decision Making
  3. Interest Rate and Economic Equivalence
  4. Understanding Money and Its Management

Part 2: Evaluation of Business and Engineering Assets

  1. Present-Worth Analysis
  2. Annual Equivalent-Worth Analysis
  3. Rate-of-Return Analysis

Part 3: Analysis of Project Cash Flows

  1. Cost Concepts Relevant to Decision Making
  2. Depreciation and Corporate Taxes
  3. Developing Project Cash Flows

Part 4: Handling Risk and Uncertainty

  1. Inflation and Its Impact on Project Cash
  2. Project Risk and Uncertainty
  3. Real-Options Analysis

Part 5: Special Topics in Engineering Economics

  1. Replacement Decisions
  2. Capital-Budgeting Decisions
  3. Economic Analysis in the Service Sector

Appendices

  1. Fundamentals of Engineering Review Questions
  2. Interest Factors for Discrete Compounding
  3. Values of the Standard Normal Distribution Function