
- 288 pages
- English
- PDF
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Finance and Accounting for Energy Engineers
About this book
Understanding finance and accounting principles is important in interfacing and conducting business with accountants, financial analysts, and members of upper management. In a relatively simple and easy-to-understand manner, this book familiarizes professionals with decision making skills founded on financial calculations and quantitative analysis. It covers finance and accounting ratios and other metrics; income statements, balance sheets, cash flow, and working capital concepts; inventory concepts; life cycle, period, direct, and indirect costs; and energy performance contracting. Each chapter concludes with a list of questions or problems for self-assessment and knowledge affirmation purposes. Answers to the questions are at the back of the book.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Finance, accounting, associated definitions, concepts and organizational structures
- Chapter 2 Break-even analysis, concepts and analysis
- Chapter 3 Energy engineering economicsātime value of money based analysis of energy project investments, revenues, savings and costs. EUAC based comparison and decision making between alternative energy projects
- Chapter 4 Financial reporting requirements, 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K
- Chapter 5 Income statements and balance sheets, cash flow and working capital concepts and analysis
- Chapter 6 Financial metrics and ratios: payback period, future value, present value, time value of money conversions. IRR, ROI, NPV, ROE, ROR, current ratio, acid test ratio, plant turnover ratio
- Chapter 7 Depreciation alternatives, S/L, double declining balance, prod. based, SOY digits, statutory depreciation method, concepts and analysis
- Chapter 8 Inventory concepts, FIFO, LIFO, EOQ, inventory, order cycle, WIP inventory, inventory carrying costs, ordering costs, concepts and analysis
- Chapter 9 Electric and gas bill schedules, calculations and analysis
- Chapter 10 Types of cost, life cycle cost and repair vs. replace Decisions and analysis
- Chapter 11 EPC, energy performance contracting and ESCOsābusiness, economic and financial perspective. Comparison of lease and capital investment alternatives. Cost, financial justification and understanding of EPC contracts and demand elasticity
- Appendices
- Index