Preface |
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1.1 Engineering Economics |
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1.1.1 Basic Engineering Economics |
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1.3 Fundamentals of Engineering Exam |
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2 Interest and the Time Value of Money |
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2.3.3 Nominal, Effective, and Continuous Interest Rates |
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2.5 Interest Formulas for Discrete Compounding |
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2.5.2 Uniform Series (Annuities) |
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2.5.4 The use of Financial Functions in Excel® |
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2.6 Interest Formulas for Continuous Compounding |
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2.6.1 Continuous Compounding for Discrete Payments |
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2.6.2 Continuous Compounding for Continuous Payments |
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3 Project Evaluation Methods |
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3.2 Alternate Uses of Capital |
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3.3 Minimum Acceptable Rate of Return (MARR) |
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3.5.1 Analysis of a Single Investment Opportunity |
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3.5.3 Analysis of Multiple Investment Opportunities |
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3.6 Rate of Return Methods |
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3.6.1 Internal Rate of Return (IRR) |
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3.6.2 Spreadsheet Formula for IRR |
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3.6.3 External Rate of Return (ERR) |
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3.6.4 Spreadsheet Formula for ERR |
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3.7 The Reinvestment Question in Rate of Return Calculations |
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3.7.3 Final Comments on ERR and IRR Relationships |
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3.8 Acceleration Projects |
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4 Service Producing Investments |
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4.2 Equal Life Alternatives |
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4.2.1 Equivalence Techniques |
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4.2.2 Rate of Return Methods |
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4.3 Unequal Life Alternatives |
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4.3.1 Least Common Multiple Method |
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4.3.2 Common Study Period |
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5 Income Producing Investments |
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5.2 Investment in a Single Project |
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5.3 Mutually Exclusive Alternatives |
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5.3.1 Equivalence Techniques |
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5.3.2 Rate of Return Techniques |
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5.4 Unequal Life Alternatives |
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5.5 Independent and Contingent Investments |
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5.5.1 Independent Investments |
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5.5.2 Contingent Investments |
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5.5.3 Limited Investment Capital |
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6 Determination of Project Cash Flow |
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6.2 Escalation and Inflation |
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6.3.1 Straight-Line Depreciation (SL) |
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6.3.2 Declining-Balance Depreciation |
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6.3.3 Sum-of-the-Years-Digits (SYD) Depreciation |
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6.3.4 Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) |
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6.4 Cash Flow Computation |
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6.4.4 Before-Tax Profit Computation |
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6.4.5 Before-Tax Cash Flow Computation |
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6.4.8 State and Federal Income Tax |
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7.2 Financial Leverage and Associated Risk |
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7.3 Adjustment to Cash Flow Equations |
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7.3.1 Leverage and Mutually Exclusive Projects |
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8 Basic Statistics and Probability |
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8.2.1 Measures of Central Tendency |
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8.2.2 Measures of Dispersion |
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8.2.3 Frequency Distributions |
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8.2.4 Relative Frequency Distribution |
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149 | (19) |
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8.3.1 Classical Definition |
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8.3.2 Relative Frequency Definition |
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8.3.3 Subjective Definition |
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8.3.4 Probability Distributions |
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168 | (3) |
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9.1.2 Monte Carlo Simulation |
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A Compound Interest Factors |
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Authors' Biographies |
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