6478 (v.5) Engineering Investment and Analysis 660


Area: Department of Civil Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
 
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Tutorial: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
 
Syllabus: Economic consequences of engineering management decisions. Capital budgeting. Time value of money. Project and component life, depreciation methods, inflation and obsolescence. Economic replacement policy and comparative method for project evaluation. Interest rates. Cost benefit analysis. The effect of borrowing on investment projects methods of funding. Hire and leasing of plant. Income tax consideration. Risk analysis. Case studies.
 
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Field of Education: 81101 Banking and Finance
Funding Cluster: 02 - Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2005 Bentley Campus Trimester 1 Y        
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External