Engineering Economy

Name: Engineering Economy
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ISBN: 9780070629349

ISBN-10: 007062934X

ISBN-13: 9780070629349

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Authors: Leland T. Blank, Anthony J. Tarquin

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This student-friendly text on the current economic issues particular to engineering covers the topics needed to analyze engineering alternatives. Students use both hand-worked and spreadsheet solutions of examples, problems and case studies. In this edition the options have been increased, with an expanded spreadsheet analysis component, twice the number of case studies, and virtually all new end-of-chapter problems. The chapters on factor derivation and usage, cost estimation, replacement studies, and after-tax evaluation have been heavily revised. New material is included on public sector projects and cost estimation. A reordering of chapters puts the fundamental topics up front in the…

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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English

Preface
Basic Concepts, Terms and Graphics	p. 2
Factors and Their Use	p. 44
Nominal and Effective Interest Rates and Continuous Compounding	p. 84
Use of Multiple Factors	p. 108
Present-Worth and Capitalized-Cost Evaluation	p. 152
Equivalent-Uniform-Annual-Worth Evaluation	p. 180
Rate-of-Return Computations for a Single Project	p. 200
Rate-of-Return Evaluation for Multiple Alternatives	p. 230
Benefit/Cost Ratio Evaluation	p. 264
Replacement Analysis	p. 288
Bonds	p. 320
Inflation, Cost Estimation, and Indirect Cost Allocation	p. 336
Depreciation and Depletion Models	p. 386
Basics of Income Taxes	p. 424
After-Tax Economic Analysis	p. 456
Breakeven Analysis and Payback Period	p. 486
Capital Rationing Among Independent Proposals	p. 516
Determining a Minimum Attractive Rate of Return	p. 534
Sensitivity Analysis and Expected-Value Decisions	p. 560
More on Variation and Decision Making Under Risk	p. 604
Basics of Using Microsoft Excel	p. 655
Basics of Accounting Reports and Business Ratios	p. 670
App. C: Final Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Problems	p. 680
Interest Factor Tables	p. 689
Index	p. 718
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