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First Printing: January 1965
Revised: June 1981
Pundamentals of Ship Design Economics
Tecture Notes
by
Harry Benford
ons, Department of Naval Architecture
ss and Marine Engineering
3 i College of Engineering
w= The University of Michigan
rant * Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS
Wherever applicable, the abbreviations used in this book are based on the
standards of the Engineering Economy Division of the American Society for
Engineering Education.
a uniform annual return (revenue less operating costs) or annual re~
payments on a loan (returning capital plus interest)
at uniform annual return after tax
ARC. average annual cost (operating cost plus annual cost of capital
recovery)
ACCR annual cost of capital recovery (CRxP)
ca compound amount factor with single payment (F#P)
CRF or CR capital recovery factor (A+P)
crt capital recovery factor after tax (A'+P)
ver discounted cash flow rate of return
e future sum of money
I interest payment
i interest rate (before tax) per annun compounded annually*
interest rate after tax*
L disposal value
N number of years, generally the economic life, period of a loan,
or depreciation period; also any year in the future
jet present value of all cash flows discounted to the present
NPV, net present value index (NPVtP)
(cont)
“These may be (a) mutually agreed upon rates, as in a loan, (b) minimum ac~
ceptable rates, as used in finding NPV, or (c{ internally generated returns
from a profitable enterprise expressed as an equivalent rate of interest,
an after-tax basis, this is called "yield" or “interest rate of return.sca
SF
sPpw
principal (amount of a loan), investment, or present worth of
future amount(s)
present value of both investment and operating costs
present worth factor or discount factor (P#F)
required freight rate
series compound amount factor (F#A)
sinking fund factor (AF)
series present worth factor (cumulative discount factor) (
tax rate
annual operating costs (wages, repairs, fuel, insurance,
overhead, etc.)
diggerence or increment
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