This book for advanced students and professionals in management and finance explains the financial appraisal of capital budgeting projects. It develops basic concepts, principles and techniques and applies them to case studies in forestry, property and international investments. Resource constraints are introduced to the capital budgeting decisions with a variety of worked examples using linear programming techniques. All calculations are extensively supported by Excel workbooks on the Web, and end of chapter questions.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Capital budgeting: an overview; 2. Project cash flows; 3. Forecasting cash flows: overview, quantitative techniques, approaches; 4. Forecasting cash flows: qualitative methods; 5. Essential Formulae in project appraisal; 6. Project analysis under certainty; 7. Project appraisal under risk; 8. Sensitivity and break-even analysis; 9. Simulation concepts and methods; 10. Case study in financial modelling and simulation of a forestry investment; 11. Resource constraints and linear programming; 12. More advanced linear programming concepts and methods; 13. Financial modelling case study in forestry project evaluation; 14. Property investment analysis; 15. Forecasting and analysing risks in property investments; 16. Multinational corporations and International Project appraisal; Appendix A. Answers to review questions.
