Research Catalog

Title

Capital investment analysis for engineering and management / John R. Canada [and others].

Publication

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Canada, John R.

Description

vii, 616 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

Capital investments > Evaluation

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Capital investment analysis for engineering and management / John R. Canada, William G. Sullivan, JOhn A. White. 2nd ed. c1996.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. Basic concepts : value, cost, and capital investment foundations -- 1. Value creation and financial accounting -- App. 1-A. Basic accounting mechanics -- 2. Cost measurement and the cost accounting system -- 3. Relevant costs and revenues and estimating -- Pt. 2. Basic capital investment analysis : applications -- 4. Computations involving interest -- 5. Equivalent worth methods for comparing alternatives -- 6. Rate of return methods for comparing alternatives -- App. 6-A. Use of the ERR method to overcome multiple-solutions difficulty with the IRR method -- App. 6-B. Other rate of return and investment recovery measures of merit for financial and management purposes -- App. 6-C. Benefit-cost ratio measures of merit -- 7. Consideration of depreciation and income taxes -- 8. Dealing with price changes in capital investment analysis -- 9. Replacement analysis -- 10. New product and expansion analyses -- App. 10-A. Sample forms for summary presentations -- 11. Capital planning and budgeting -- App. 11-A. Adjusted present worth or value -- App. 11-B. Bundled financing -- Pt. 3. Capital investment analyses in an uncertain world : formal assessments -- 12. Introduction to risk and uncertainty -- 13. Sensitivity analysis -- App. 13-A. Tabular and graphical illustrations of sensitivity analysis for the comparison of alternatives -- 14. Analytical and simulation approaches to risk analysis -- 15. Decision criteria and methods for risk and uncertainty -- 16. Decision tree analysis -- App. 16-A. Bayes's theorem and tabular format for calculation of posterior probabilities -- Pt. 4. Specialized topics -- 17. Capital investment decisions as real options -- 18. Activity-based costing and activity-based management -- 19. Multiple-attribute decision making and the analytic hierarchy process -- App. A. Tables of discrete compounding interest factors (for various common values of i from 1/2 % to 25%) -- App. B. Tables of continuous compounding interest factors (for r = 10% and 20%) -- App. C. Table of random numbers -- App. D. Table of random normal deviates -- App. E. The standardized normal distribution function, F(S).

ISBN

• 013143408X
• 9780131434080

LCCN

2004050537

OCLC

• ocm55535185
• 55535185
• SCSB-5124611

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries