Engineering Economics Book-Full Text

Contents and Preface

Chapters

1. Introduction

2. Basic Concepts of Capital Investment

3. Compound Interest Formulas and Applications

4. Discounted Cash Flows and Rates of Return

5. The Economic Feasibility of Independent Projects

6. Comparison of Mutually Exclusive Proposals

7. The Benefit-Cost Ratio Method

8. The Internal Rate of Return Method

9. Capital Budgeting

10. Price Level Changes

11. Depreciation

12. Corporate Taxation

13. Production Cost and Benefit Estimation

14. Financial Statements

15. Uncertainty and Risk

16. Capital Investment Decisions in Private Firms

17. Resource Allocation Decisions for Public Projects

Appendix A – Discrete Compound Interest Tables
Appendix B – Basic Factors for Continuous Compounding
Appendix C – Continuous Compound Interest Tables
Appendix D – Use of Electronic Spreadsheets as Computational Aids
Appendix E – Table of Standard Normal Probability Distribution

Answers to Selected Problems
Index