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  • The sinking fund problem : optimal timing of bond purchases

    Creator:
    McVicar, Robert William
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    A sinking fund payment must be made each year to retire a bond issue. Instead of paying cash, the corporation will typically surrender bonds that it has purchased on the open market. The sinking fund problem is to determine an optimal strategy in the form of a stopping rule to...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    (Weston and Brigham (29)). Weingartner (28) and Bierman (3) were among the first to develop optimization

  • Critical path budgeting : a synthesis of budgeting and critical path scheduling

    Creator:
    Dervitsiotis, Kostas N.
    Abstract:
    Critical Path Budgeting is introduced as an integrating tool for project planning, coordination, and control. Through a synthesis of budgeting and critical path scheduling, it is possible to treat the time and cost variables of a project explicitly. Thus, one can analyze the behavior of the firm as an approximation...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Network Representation of CPB Implernentation of CPB Conclusions BIBLIOGRAPHY Figure l-1 T-Z 1-3 r-4

  • An investigation of the influence of choice structure on decision making behavior

    Creator:
    Dervitsiotis, Kostas N.
    Abstract:
    The behavior of individuals in decision making under risk was investigated using choice structures of greater complexity than the types examined in previous studies. The experiment performed consisted of two phases. In Phase I a basic utility function for money was derived for each subject using lotteries with two equally...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Decision procedures for capital rationing under conditions of risk

    Creator:
    Nebergall, David William
    Abstract:
    The problem of deciding exactly how to allocate a limited amount of capital resources among competing investment alternatives in order to provide the greatest economic benefit to the business enterprise has been a subject of interest for nearly a century. Many decision models and methods for evaluation and comparison of...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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  • Economic comparison of alternative power resource development plans in the lower Mekong Basin

    Creator:
    Sookawesh, Pala
    Abstract:
    In this thesis a system analysis compares power development plans for the 1980 decade in the Mekong countries i.e. Laos, Thailand Cambodia, and South Vietnam. Given the decision to invest in power development, an economic evaluation is made of complete system developments rather than just hydro or thermal plants. The...
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    Masters Thesis
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  • Improved justifications and sensitivity analysis for capital expenditures

    Creator:
    Solis-Sarmina, Jaime
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    In this study, three main issues are discussed: possible bias arising when inflation effects are neglected in engineering economy studies, capital projects authorization forms which are not designed to include inflation effects in the calculations,'and the introduction of a new graphical technique for capital expenditure sensitivity analysis. Approaches are described...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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