Capital Budgeting and Investment Analysis marries theory with practice by providing numerous illustrations of real-world applications. It includes a discussion of capital budgeting's link to the corporation's strategy for creating value as well as addressing the international aspects of capital budgeting. The basic philosophy of this book is to help students develop their critical thinking skills required to assess potential investments. Topics covered include the basics of capital budgeting, the estimation of project cash flows and the project cost of capital, risk analysis in capital budgeting, and corporate strategy and its relationship to the capital-budgeting decision.
Written for both scholars and practitioners, this book provides an in-depth review of the state-of-the-art practices and research opportunities in a new era where information technology resides in everyday objects from cars to clothes to shipping containers.
Abstract: The rise in the number and complexity of pervasive systems is a fact.
Pervasive systems developers need advanced development methods in order to
build better systems in an easy way. Software factories and model-driven ...
The third volume in this international review takes "raising standards" as its central theme. Raising standards is no simple matter, either conceptually or empirically, whatever politicians might think. If it is to happen, it must draw on research and practical experience from other countries.
'It is not clear whether Jerusalem was captured by the Jews in the revolt of Bar
Kokhba', state Isaac and Oppenheimer in their review of the research.“ All
textbooks from the 1950s to the early 1990s, however, were conclusive: '
Jerusalem was ...
