Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software InvestmentAddison-Wesley, 2005 - 621 pages Annotation Is your organization getting the maximum value out of its precious, limitedresources (specifically, money, time, and manpower)? Most professionaldevelopers do not consider the business implications of the technical decisionsthey are making -- but they should! In order for software engineering to trulybecome an engineering discipline, software professionals need to know andunderstand the engineering economy. This new book helps software practitioners appreciate the organizationalramifications of each decision they make. It is an insight into the engineeringeconomy that more software organizations aspire to. Each chapter contains aseries of self-study questions to help the reader apply the learned techniques, and the book can also serve as a reference that software engineers can turn to, again and again. |
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... ASSETS WITH ECONOMIC LIVES SHORTER THAN THE PLANNING HORIZON The situation is more complex when an asset's economic life is shorter than the planning horizon . Three different methods can be used in this situation . Each method is valid ...
... ASSETS WITH ECONOMIC LIVES SHORTER THAN THE PLANNING HORIZON The situation is more complex when an asset's economic life is shorter than the planning horizon . Three different methods can be used in this situation . Each method is valid ...
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... asset is operating has changed , and the asset isn't well matched to that new environment . One kind of func- tional depreciation is obsolescence . Obsolescence happens when another asset that can do the same job better makes this asset ...
... asset is operating has changed , and the asset isn't well matched to that new environment . One kind of func- tional depreciation is obsolescence . Obsolescence happens when another asset that can do the same job better makes this asset ...
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... asset's life would be unrealistically high . Similarly , if the company could only write off the actual expense ( acquisition cost minus salvage value ) after an asset had been sold or scrapped , the early years ' income taxes would be ...
... asset's life would be unrealistically high . Similarly , if the company could only write off the actual expense ( acquisition cost minus salvage value ) after an asset had been sold or scrapped , the early years ' income taxes would be ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION AND FOUNDATIONS | 1 |
The Business DecisionMaking Process | 9 |
Business on Purpose | 13 |
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accounting actual dollar AE(i after-tax cash-flow stream alternative analytic hierarchy process annual interest rate asset Assume attribute BC(i before-tax Berkshire book value break-even point business decisions calculate cash cash-flow diagram cash-flow instances Chapter compound-amount constant dollar cost function CR(i current best decision analysis decision tree decision variable declining-balance depreciation depreciation amount differential cash-flow stream discounted payback economic Equal-Payment-Series equivalent estimate example expected value expenses F Given Figure Find P Given flow for-profit formula Given A Find Given F income taxes inflation rate initial investment Kinkaid's loan maintenance costs MARR method months mutually exclusive nominal interest rate operating and maintenance organization overhead payback period payments payoff payoff matrix planning horizon present worth price index profit proposal PW(i PW(MARR Recovery Find salvage value scale schedule Self-Study Questions shows Single-Payment software engineering software project unit cost