Engineering economic principles /
Henry Malcolm Steiner
- Second edition.
- New York ; London : McGraw Hill Education, c1996
- xvi, 520 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Investment choice -- equivalence -- interest and financial mathematics -- present worth -- annual worth -- the benefit/cost ratio -- the internal rate of return -- multiple alternatives -- the effect of income tax on economic analysis -- inflation -- risk -- loans -- capital budgeting -- the cost of capital -- retirement and replacement -- sector analysis and viewpoint -- sensitivity analysis.
Designed for the core course in engineering economics, this text provides an introduction to the field. It focuses on central concepts, with practical examples complementing the explanations. A disk (for use with Lotus, Excel or Quatro) contains solutions to selected examples from the text.