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| Financial And Cost Information | |
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| Engineering Economic Decisions | |
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| The Rational Decision-Making Process | |
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| Economic Decisions | |
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| Predicting the Future | |
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| Role of Engineers in Business | |
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| Large-Scale Engineering Projects | |
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| Types of Strategic Engineering Economic Decisions | |
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| Understanding Financial Statements | |
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| Accounting: The Basis of Decision Making | |
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| Net Worth: How Well Am I Doing? Financial Status for Businesses | |
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| Using Ratios to Make Business Decisions | |
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| Cost Concepts and Behaviors | |
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| General Cost Terms | |
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| Classifying Costs for Financial Statements | |
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| Cost Classification for Predicting Cost Behavior | |
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| Cost Concepts Relevant to Decision Making | |
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| Thinking on the Margin: Fundamental Economic | |
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| Money And Investing | |
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| Time Is Money | |
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| Interest: The Cost of Money | |
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| Economic Equivalence | |
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| Development of Interest Formulas | |
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| Unconventional Equivalence Calculations | |
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| Understanding Money and Its Management | |
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| Nominal and Effective Interest Rates | |
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| Equivalence Calculations when Payment Periods and Compounding Periods Coincide | |
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| Equivalence Calculations when Payment Periods and Compounding Periods Differ | |
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| Equivalence Calculations with Continuous Payments | |
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| Changing Interest Rates | |
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| Debt Management | |
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| Amortized Loans | |
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| Principles of Investing | |
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| Investing in Financial Assets | |
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| Investment Strategies | |
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| Investing in Stocks | |
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| Investing in Bonds | |
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| Evaluating Business And Engineering Assets | |
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| Present Worth Analysis | |
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| Describing Project Cash Flows | |
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| Initial Project Screening Method | |
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| Present Worth Analysis | |
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| Variations of Present Worth Analysis | |
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| Comparing Mutually Exclusive Alternatives | |
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| Annual Equivalent Worth Analysis | |
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| Annual Equivalent Criterion | |
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| Applying Annual Worth Analysis | |
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| Mutually Exclusive Projects | |
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| Design Economics | |
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| Rate of Return Analysis | |
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| Rate of Return | |
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| Methods for Finding Rate of Return | |
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| Internal Rate of Return Criterion | |
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| Mutually Exclusive Alternatives | |
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| Development Of Project Cash Flows | |
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| Depreciation | |
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| Asset Depreciation | |
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| Factors Inherent to Asset Depreciation | |
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| Book Depreciation Methods | |
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| Tax Depreciation Methods | |
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| Depletion | |
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| Repairs or Improvements to Depreciable Assets | |
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| Corporate Income Taxes | |
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| After-Tax Cash Flow | |
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| Corporate Taxes | |
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| Tax Treatment of Gains or Losses on Depreciable Assets | |
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| Income Tax Rate to be Used in Economic Analysis | |
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| Developing Project Cash Flows | |
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| Estimating Cost/Benefit for Engineering Projects | |
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| Incremental Cash Flows | |
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| Developing Cash Flow Statements | |
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| Generalized Cash Flow Approach | |
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| Inflation and Its Impact on Project Cash Flows | |
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| Meaning and Measure of Inflation | |
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| Equivalence Calculations under Inflation | |
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| Effects of Inflation on Project Cash Flows | |
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| Rate of Return Analysis under Inflation | |
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| Special Topics In Engineering Economics | |
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| Project Risk and Uncertainty | |
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| Origins of Project Risk | |
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| Methods of Describing Project Risk | |
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| Probability Concepts for Investment Decisions | |
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| Probability Distribution of NPW | |
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| Decision Trees and Sequential Investment Decisions | |
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| Replacement Decisions | |
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| Replacement Analysis Fundamentals | |
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| Economic Service Life | |
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| Replacement Analysis When Required Service Is Long | |
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| Replacement Analysis with Tax Considerations | |
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| Capital Budgeting Decisions | |
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| Methods of Financing | |
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| Cost of Capital | |
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| Choice of Minimum Attractive Rate of Return | |
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| Capital Budgeting | |
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| Economic Analysis in the Public Sector | |
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| Framework of Benefit-Cost Analysis | |
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| Valuation of Benefits and Costs | |
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| Benefit-Cost Ratios | |
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| Analysis of Public Projects Based on Cost-Effectiveness | |
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| Computing IRR for Nonsimple Investments | |
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| Predicting Multiple i*s | |
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| Net Investment Test | |
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| External Interest Rate for Mixed Investments | |
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| Calculation of Return on Invested Capital for Mixed Investments | |
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| Trial-and-Error Method for Computing IRR | |
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| Simulation | |
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| Computer Simulation | |
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| Model Building | |
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| Monte Carlo Sampling | |
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| Simulation Output Analysis | |
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| Dependent Random Variables | |
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| Electronic Spreadsheets: Summary of Built-In Financial Functions | |
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| Nominal Versus Effective Interest Rates | |
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| Single-Sum Compounding Functions | |
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| Annuity Functions | |
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| Loan Analysis Functions | |
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| Bond Functions | |
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| Project Evaluation Tools | |
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| Depreciation Functions | |
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| Interest Factors for Discrete Compounding | |
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| Answers to Self-Test Questions | |
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| Index | |