Essays on Cost Benefit

Dislike of profits There are people who think that profit is dirty. They consider the pursuit of profit to be greedy or predatory, so anything done for profit is tainted. This mindset is especially prevalent among Big Government advocates and young people, and in the...

Business ownership requires many tough decisions — how to spend money, how to market to customers, which types of software you should choose, and more. Each decision that you make has opportunity costs, as well as the potential to affect your business. In this article,...

Multiples The basic concept behind relative valuation or multiples is that identical assets should sell for identical prices (Koller et al., 2015). This method is considered easy to understand, apply and communicate. However, multiples are often misapplied. According to Damadoran (2012) and Goedhart et al....

Cost benefit analysis is an important tool for policy makers since it helps them to make fair decision of taking up large scale project which will incur capital expenditure which is less than its benefit. It usually evaluate the total expenditure can incur in carrying...

CBA is the process of quantifying benefits and costs of a project, decision or a program in a given period (Brealey et al., 2012). The CBA analysis estimates the NPV (net present value) of the project by invest and returns discounting. Inclusively, the Rate of...

Software estimation is measuring the future effort required for the project implementation. Software estimation is one amongst the challenging tasks of the project manager. Estimations include the software size estimation, effort estimation in man months, and cost estimation of the project. There are many estimation...

The manufacturing industry of the 21st century is marked by increase in automation of production, growth in demand for customized products and competitive product markets. The increase in automation and product diversity entails a high investment in capacity resources which subsequently leads to an increase...