ETS/Theodore Tutorials
Engineering Economics and Finance A Self-Instructional Problem Workbook
Louis Theodore and Kristina M. Neuser Department of Chemical Engineering Manhattan College, Riverdale NY
Published by ETS Professional Training Institute © 1996 Louis Theodore. 258 pages. ISBN 1-882767-19-5.
Table of Contents
Basic Operations Simple Interest · Compound Interest · Present Worth · Evaluation of Sums of Money · Depreciation · Fabricated Equipment Cost Index · Capital Recovery Factor · Perpetual Life · Break-even Point · Approximate Rate of Return · Exact Rate of Return · Bonds · Incremental Cost · Minimum Cost · Numerical Integration · Numerical Differentiation · Newton-Raphson Method · Runge-Kutta · Linear Regression Analysis
Problems Principles Sums of Money (SOM) SOM 1: Installment Size of Semiannual Loan Payments SOM 2: Discharging of a Mortgage at any Time Prior to the Endpoint
Interest (INT) INT 1: Repayment of a Loan Through Deposits to a Savings Account INT 2: Payment Period with a Different Interest Period INT 3: Borrowing Against Future Income INT 4: Deferred Investments INT 5: Modified Method of Deferred Investment INT 6: Deductions from a Purchase Price
Depreciation (DEP) DEP 1: Straight Line Depreciation DEP 2: Sinking Fund Depreciation
Annual Cost (ANC) ANC 1: Alternate Proposals with Differing Service Lives ANC 2: Service Life and Return on Investment ANC 3: Warranted Extra Expenditure ANC 4: Ownership vs. Rental of Utilities ANC 5: Variable Annual Cost ANC 6: Additional Theater Attendance and Warranted Extra Expenditure
Capitalized Cost (CAP) CAP 1: Cost Comparisons with Different Lifetimes CAP 2: Perpetual Life and Capital Recovery
Rate of Return (ROR) ROR 1: Rate of Return and Simple Interest ROR 2: Rate of Return on an Extra Investment
Bonds (BND) BND 1: Bond Purchase Price BND 2: Amount of Bond Issue
Applications Domestic (DOM) DOM 1: Present Worth Factor and Periodic Deposit DOM 2: Depreciation and Appraisal Value DOM 3: Annual Cost Comparison Using Straight Line Depreciation DOM 4: Present and Future Income DOM 5: Choosing Between New and Existing Equipment DOM 6: Uniform Annual Sale and the Break-Even Point DOM 7: Depreciation of a Home and its Equipment with Separate Corresponding Useful Lifetimes DOM 8: Amortization of an Initial Purchase and its Replacement
Real Estate (RES) RES 1: Justifiable Expense for Annual Savings RES 2: Annual Cost and Gross Revenue Comparison RES 3: Percentage of Operating Capacity to Break Even RES 4: Perpetual Life and the Comparison of Alternate Highway Proposals RES 5: Annual Tax on Public vs. Private Ownership of a Sewer Treatment Plant RES 6: Comparison of Alternate Proposals on the Basis of Present Worth
Industrial (IND) IND 1: Purchase vs. Licensing of a Patent IND 2: Straight Line Appraisal with Sinking Fund Depreciation IND 3: Comparison of Alternate Proposals with the Inclusion of Electricity Requirements IND 4: Optimization of a Bridge's Span Length through Minimum Cost IND 5: Kelvin's Law and the Optimum Number of Parts per Lot IND 6: Economic Lot Size per Order IND 7: Break-even Point of Enameled vs. Tinned Wire IND 8: Deferred Maintenance Costs
Utilities (UTL) UTL 1: Revision of a Payment Schedule UTL 2: Variation of Appraisal Value with Time UTL 3: Insulation Thickness and Energy Loss UTL 4: Bond Amortization UTL 5: Replacement of an Electric Plant Not in Kind UTL 6: Fixed and Variable Cost of a Power Plant
Environmental (ENV) ENV 1: Baghouse Annualized Capital, Operating and Maintenance Costs ENV 2: Liquid Injection vs. Rotary Kiln Economic Comparison ENV 3: Equipment Options ENV 4: Distillation vs. Extraction Comparison
Solutions to Problems
Appendix: Glossary of Abbreviations
Index
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