Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Engineering Economics university questions

MG6863 Engineering Economics

Unit 3 Cash Flow

Part-A

1.     What is meant by rate of return method?
This method takes into account the total earnings expected from an investment proposal over its full life time. It also uses the accounting concept of profit.

2.     Mention the various rate of return method.
(i)                Internal rate of return
(ii)              Average of return
(iii)            Net present value method
(iv)            Payback period

3.     What is meant by revenue dominated cash flow?
The profit/revenue, salvage values of all inflows to an organisation will be assigned with positive sign and the costs outflows will be assigned with negative sign is called revenue dominated cash flow.

4.     What is meant by cost dominated cash flow?
The cost outflows will be assigned with positive sign and the profit, revenue, salvage values all inflows etc.,will be assigned with negative sign is called cash dominated cash flow.

5.     What is meant by annual equivalent method?
It is used for measuring investment worth by determining equal payments on an annual basis.
AE(i)=PW(i) (A/P,i,n)

6.     What is present worth method?
It measures the surplus in an investment project at time zero.The present worth of all cash inflows is compared against the present worth of all cash outflows associated with an investment of project.

7.     What is future worth analysis?
Net future worth measures the surplus at a time period other than 0. It is particularly useful in an investment situation where we need to compute the equivalent of project at the end of its investment period.

8.     What is rate of return?
It is the break even interest rate (i) which equates the present worth of a project’s cash outflows to present worth of its cash inflows.



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