Practitioner's guide to economic decision making in asset management background and guidance . Part I Background / / by David Marlow, David Beale, Scott Gould

• Autore: Marlow David
• Pubblicazione: Alexandria, Virginia : , : Water Environment Research Foundation, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Disciplina: 657.7
• Soggetto topico: Assets (Accounting)
• Persona (resp. second.): BealeDavid; GouldScott
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Practitioner's Guide to Economic Decision Making in Asset Management: Part I: Background""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abstract and Benefits""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Acronyms and Abbreviations""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Chapter 1.0: Project Background""; ""1.1 Infrastructure Investment Challenges""; ""1.2 Funding Water Sector Investments""; ""1.3 Need for New Approaches""; ""1.4 Economic Decision Making""; ""1.5 What Economic Decision Making Isn't""; ""1.6 Purpose of This Guid"" ; ""1.7 Links with Other WERF Initiatives""""1.8 Scope of this Report""; ""1.9 Ethical Perspective""; ""1.10 Report Structure""; ""1.11 Report Roadmap""; ""Chapter 2.0: Sewage Systems and Their Management""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Sewerage Assets""; ""2.3 Asset Management""; ""2.3.1 Integrating Asset Management into the Business""; ""2.3.2 The Role of Key Performance Indicators""; ""2.4 Investing in Assets""; ""2.4.1 Asset Acquisition""; ""2.4.2 Capital Interventions""; ""2.4.3 Planning for Asset Management Investments""; ""Chapter 3.0: Economic Decision Making""; ""3.1 Introduction"" ; ""3.2 Economic Theory""""3.2.1 Total Economic Value""; ""3.2.2 Economic Tradeoffs""; ""3.3 The Role of Economics in Asset Management Decisions""; ""3.3.1 Scope of Application""; ""3.3.2 Key Implementation Challenges""; ""3.4 Key Concepts in Economic Decision Making""; ""3.4.1 Risk""; ""3.4.2 Life Cycle Costs""; ""3.4.3 Multi-Criteria Perspectives""; ""3.4.4 Strategic Flexibility""; ""Chapter 4.0: Elements of Economic Analysis""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Costs""; ""4.2.1 Resource Costs""; ""4.2.2 Externality Costs""; ""4.2.3 Risk Costs""; ""4.2.4 WSP versus Societal View of Externalities"" ; ""4.3 Benefits and Avoided Costs""""4.4 Elements of Economic Analysis""; ""4.4.1 Estimating Resource Costs""; ""4.4.2 Estimating Externality Costs""; ""4.4.3 Estimating Risk Costs""; ""4.5 Future Asset Performance""; ""4.5.1 Reliability and Failure Rate""; ""4.5.2 Failure Modes""; ""4.5.3 Failure Rates for the Base Case""; ""4.5.4 Weibull Analysis""; ""4.5.5 Failure Rates for Alternative Interventions""; ""4.6 Treatment of Consequences""; ""4.6.1 Estimating Traffic Congestion and Customer Disruption""; ""4.6.2 Other Intangible Impacts""; ""4.7 Economic Valuation Methods"" ; ""4.7.1 Market Price Methods""""4.7.2 Surrogate (Revealed Preference) Methods""; ""4.7.3 Survey-Based (Stated Preference) Methods""; ""4.7.4 Benefit Transfer""; ""4.8 Assessing Relative Worth of Options""; ""4.8.1 Simple Payback Period""; ""4.8.2 B/C Ratio""; ""4.8.3 NPV Approach""; ""4.8.4 LCC and Cumulative Cost Calculations""; ""4.8.5 Annualized Equivalent Costs""; ""4.9 Other Elements of the Analysis""; ""4.9.1 Choice of Discount Rate""; ""4.9.2 Shadow Costs""; ""4.9.3 Analysis Period""; ""4.9.4 Uncertainty""; ""4.9.5 Revenues""; ""4.9.6 Available Budgets""; ""4.9.7 Inflation"" ; ""Chapter 5.0: Supporting Frameworks and Tools""
• Titolo autorizzato: Practitioner's guide to economic decision making in asset management background and guidance
• ISBN: 1-78040-528-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821358003321
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