Cost Analysis and Engineering Economy

Cost and engineering economic analysis with special emphasis on a unified approach based upon cost accounting, operations research, economics and other quantitative methods. Topics include cost and breakeven analysis, cost estimation, methods of engineering economic analysis, analyses for public sector projects, effects of income taxes and depreciation in economy studies, risk and uncertainty in engineering economy studies, replacement studies and models, capital budgeting, real option analyses and computer applications.

1. Time Value of Money

2. Interest Rates and Project Returns

3. Inflation and Foreign Exchange

4. Depreciation and Tax

5. Replacement Analysis

6. Risk and Uncertainty

7. Capital Budgeting