Engineering economy /
Leland Blank, Anthony Tarquin.
- Eighth edition.
- New York : McGraw-Hill Education, c2018.
- xvii, 634 pages ; illustrations ; 28 cm
Includes index.
The fundamentals -- Foundations of engineering economy -- Factors: how time and interest affect money -- Combining factors and spreadsheet functions -- Nominal and effective interest rates -- Basic analysis tools -- Present worth analysis -- Annual worth analysis -- Rate of return analysis: one project -- Rate of return analysis: multiple alternatives -- Benefit/cost analysis and public sector economics -- Epilogue: selecting the basic analysis tool -- Making better decisions -- Project financing and noneconomic attributes -- Replacement and retention decisions -- Independent projects with budget limitation -- Rounding out the study -- Effects of inflation -- Cost estimation and indirect cost allocation -- Depreciation methods -- After-tax economic analysis -- Sensitivity analysis and staged decisions -- More on variation and decision making under risk -- Appendix A Using spreadsheets and Microsoft Excel -- Appendix B Basics of accounting reports and business ratios -- Appendix C: Code of ethics for engineers -- Appendix D: Alternate methods for equivalence calculations -- Appendix E: Glossary of Concepts and terms -- Reference materials -- Factor tables -- Index.