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NPTEL - Depreciation, alternate investment and profitability analysis 
offered by IIT Roorkee

  • Public/Government Institute
  • Estd. 1847

Depreciation, alternate investment and profitability analysis
 at 
IIT Roorkee 
Overview

Gain a comprehensive overview of the investment and profitability analysis principles and concepts

Duration

4 weeks

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Depreciation, alternate investment and profitability analysis
 at 
IIT Roorkee 
Highlights

  • Earn a E- certificate of completion from IIT Roorkee
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Depreciation, alternate investment and profitability analysis
 at 
IIT Roorkee 
Course details

Who should do this course?
  • For Under graduate Students
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  • In the analysis of costs and profits for business operation the cost of physical assets decrease in value with age due to physical deterioration, technological advances, changes in economic environment, or other similar factors which ultimately will cause retirement of the property
  • The reduction in value of the physical assets due to any of the above causes is a measure of the depreciation
  • In the present MOOC different depreciation methods such as: St. line method, Declining balance method, Double-declining balance method, Sum-of-the-digits method, : Sinking fund method & Repair provision method, Accelerated cost recovery method 'I&II are discussed
  • The common problem confronted in engineering economics are those where alternative comparison between two or more mutually exclusive alternative investments compete involving different series of Capital disbursement.
  • The present module demonstrates how to apply the profitability measures to select the best alternative out of a set of mutually exclusive alternatives properly
  • The module contains different methods such as: Annual Cost method, Present Worth Method, Perpetuity Method, Rate of Return Method, Incremental Rate of return Method and Minimum Return as a cost Method
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Depreciation, alternate investment and profitability analysis
 at 
IIT Roorkee 
Curriculum

Week1

Introduction to course

Depreciation: St. line method

Declining balance method

Double-declining balance method

Sum-of-the-digits method

Week 2

Sinking fund method & Repair provision method

Accelerated cost recovery method 'I&II

Introduction to alternate investment: Annual cost method

Week 3

Present worth method

Rate of return method

Incremental rate of return

Perpetuity method

Minimum return as cost

Week 4

Introduction to profitability analysis and Payback period

Return on investment

Net Return

Discounted cash flow-I & II

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Depreciation, alternate investment and profitability analysis
 at 
IIT Roorkee 
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Dr.Bikash Mohanty
He is a professor in Chemical engineering department at Indian institute of technology Roorkee. He has developed and taught the course “Chemical Engineering plant design and economics” for more than a decade to chemical engineers. He has also developed a course on “Chemical Engineering Plant Design and Economics” for the project “National Mission Project on Education through ICT-developing pedagogical methods for various classes, intellectual calibres and research in e-learning” executed by IIT Kharagpur.

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