Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment.

Abstract

pt. 1. Introduction and foundations -- Ch. 1. Return on software : maximizing the return on your software investment -- Ch. 2. Business on purpose -- Ch. 3. The fundamental concepts of business decisions -- Ch. 4. The business decision-making process -- Ch. 5. Interest : the time value of money -- Ch. 6. Other interest(ing) calculations -- Ch. 7. Equivalence -- Ch. 8. Bases for comparison -- Ch. 9. Developing mutually exclusive alternatives -- pt. 2. Making for-profit business decisions -- Ch. 10. For-profit decision analysis -- Ch. 11. Planning horizons and economic life -- Ch. 12. Replacement and retirement decisions -- pt. 3. Advanced for-profit decision techniques -- Ch. 13. Inflation and deflation -- Ch. 14. Depreciation -- Ch. 15. General accounting and cost accounting -- Ch. 16. Income taxes and after-tax cash-flow streams -- Ch. 17. The consequences of income taxes on business decisions -- pt. 4. Making decisions in government and nonprofit organizations -- Ch. 18. Making not-for-profit business decisions -- pt. 5. Present economy -- Ch. 19. Break-even analysis -- Ch. 20. Optimization analysis -- pt. 6. Estimation, risk, and uncertainty -- Ch. 21. Basic estimation concepts -- Ch. 22. General estimation techniques -- Ch. 23. Allowing for inaccuracy in estimates -- Ch. 24. Decision making under risk -- Ch. 25. Decision making under uncertainty -- pt. 7. Multiple-attribute decisions -- Ch. 26. Decisions based on multiple attributes -- pt. 8. Summary -- Ch. 27. Closing remarks -- App. A. Software project work breakdown structures -- App. B. Interest tables -- App. C. Linear interpolation -- App. D. Derivatives -- App. E. Introduction to probability and statistics.