Engineering Economist articles from March 1992

Engineering Economist archives from March 1992

Capital budgeting practices of large hospitals.
March 22, 1992... INTRODUCTION This paper reports the findings of our 1989 survey of capital budgeting practices of 427 hospitals. While there have been numerous published surveys of capital budgeting practices of large industrial firms, very little has...

Discount rates for mutually exclusive investments with stationary internal rates of return.
March 22, 1992... INTRODUCTION The discount rate used in present worth analyses is a parameter of central importance in engineering economics, since choosing among alternatives depends upon which rate is used. At least three different policies are...

Credit-granting decisions under risk.
March 22, 1992... I. INTRODUCTION This paper provides a link between the credit-granting problem and the credit limits in a single-period context. A model of credit granting is developed which incorporates the effects of granting additional credit on the...

Sensitivity analysis of EAC's robustness. (equivalent annual cost)
March 22, 1992... INTRODUCTION Analyzing mutually exclusive alternatives with differing lives typically requires (1) estimating the salvage value at a selected horizon or (2) calculating an equivalent annuity [1, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10]. Most other approaches...

ASTM Standards on Building Economics.
March 22, 1992... ASTM STANDARDS ON BUILDING ECONOMICS sponsored by ASTM Subcommittee E06.81 on Building Economics, American Society for Testing and Materials Philadelphia, 1990, vi + 62 pp., (paperback). ISBN 0-8031-1225-4. List $19.00 This publication is...

Life-Cost and Economic Analysis.
March 22, 1992... LIFE -- COST AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, Wolter J. Fabrycky and Benjamin S. Blanchard, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991, XIV 1 384 pages, ISBN 0-13-538323-4. List Price $48.00 This timely book focuses on the life-cycle cost...

The Arthur Young Guide to Water and Wastewater Finance and Pricing.
March 22, 1992... THE ARTHUR YOUNG GUIDE TO WATER AND WASTEW FINANCE AND PRICING, George A. Raftelis, Lewis Publishers, Inc. Chelsea, Michigan 1989, xxvii + 220 pp. ISBN 0-87371-181-5. List $49.95 This book sets out of provide an understanding of and guide...

Queueing Methods for Services and Manufacturing.
March 22, 1992... QUEUEING METHODS; FOR SERVICES AND MANUFACTURING, Randolph W., Hall, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991, xvi + 476 pp. ISBN 0-13-744756. List $47.00 There are a number of textbooks on queueing theory on the market, and this...

Cost Estimating, 2nd ed.
March 22, 1992... COST ESTIMATING, Rodney Stewart, Second Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1991, xxi + 359pp., ISBN 0-471-85707-6. List $54.95 This Second Edition of Cost Estimating is composed of thirteen chapters, and the author, Rodney...

Quantitative Methods for Capital Budgeting.
March 22, 1992... QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR CAPITAL BUDGETING, Reuven R. Levary and Neil E. Seitz, South-Western Publishing Company, Cincinanati, Ohio, 1990, xiii + 285 pp. (paperback). ISBN 0-538-06080-8. List $22.50 This brief but very well-written new book...