Student's Quick Study Guide for Engineering Economic Analysis

by Newnan, Donald G.

• ISBN13: 9781576450505
• ISBN10: 1576450503
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This 320-page book is available separately from the main text, EngineeringEconomic Analysis, 8/e. It contains a 32-page summary of engineering economy,followed by 386 problems, each with a detailed solution.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Course Summary	1	(36)
Introductory Problems -- Basic Concepts	37	(8)
Decision-making without compound interest tables
Interest Problems and Equivalence	45	(4)
Using compound interest tables
More Interest Formulas	49	(22)
Periodic compounding and continuous compounding
Nominal and effective interest
Present Worth	71	(26)
Present Worth of future sums of money
Choosing between alternatives
Capitalized Cost (PW of infinite series)
Annual Cash Flow	97	(32)
Annual Equivalent of an irregular cash flow Equivalent Uniform Annual Cost (EUAC)
Choosing between alternatives
Computing an Unknown Interest Rate	129	(10)
Rate of Return Analysis	139	(24)
Solving two alternative problems
Incremental analysis
Solving multiple alternative problems
Other Analysis Techniques	163	(22)
Future Worth
Payback (payoff) Period
Sensitivity and breakeven
Depreciation Computations	185	(18)
Straight Line and Sum-Of-Years-Digits
Declining Balance and Double Declining Balance
Accelerated Cost Recovery System (ACRS)
Income Taxes	203	(28)
Personal and corporate income taxes
After-tax economic analysis
Equipment Retirement and Replacement	231	(14)
Inflation	245	(16)
Benefit-Cost Ratio	261	(8)
Economic analysis in government
Other Problems	269	(8)
Compound Interest Tables	277