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Importance -- Engineering and design -- Economic evaluation -- Strategies for the enterprise -- Information -- Domestic and international business -- International system of units -- A look at the book -- Labor analysis -- Background -- The mythical man-hour -- Time -- Wage and fridge rates -- Joint labor cost (optional) -- Learning -- Material analysis -- Background -- Material -- Shape -- Cost -- Material cost policies -- Joint material cost (optional) -- Accounting analysis -- Business transactions -- Conventions -- Chart of accounts -- Structures of accounts -- Understanding the balance-sheet statement -- Understanding the profit-and-loss statement -- Depreciation -- Budgeting -- Overhead - Job and process accounting and variance procedures (optional) -- Forecasting -- Graphic analysis of facts -- Least-squares and regression (optional) -- Time-series models (optional) -- Cost indexes -- Calculation, interpretation, and unintended consequences -- Estimating methods -- Estimating for the enterprise -- Universal methods -- Operation methods -- Product methods -- Project methods -- Advanced approaches (optional) -- Operation estimating -- Background -- Manufacturing : what it is, what it does, and what it is not -- Classic operations analysis (Option 1) -- Contemporary operations analysis (Option 2) -- Tool cost -- Operation cost -- Product estimating -- Background -- Estimating engineering costs -- Information required for product estimating -- The product estimate -- Extensions for learning model (Optional) -- Pricing principles -- Basic contract types (Optional) -- Benchmarking and competitive analysis -- Trends in product cost estimating (Optional) -- Cost analysis -- First principles for tradeoff studies -- Cash flow -- Break-even models -- Life cycle (Optional) -- Engineering economy -- Importance -- Average annual rate-of return methods -- Payback period method -- Time value of money methods -- Advanced applications (Optional) -- The enterprise, entrepreneurship, and imaginamachina -- The enterprise -- Entrepreneurship -- Designing for profit -- Designing for manufacture -- Self manufacture of purchase? -- Enterprise planning -- Financing and enterprise funding (Optional) -- Legal reminders (Optional) -- Ethics and engineering -- Appendix 1. Values of the standard normal distribution function -- Appendix 2. Values of the student t distribution -- Appendix 3. 10% interest factors for annual compounding interest -- Appendix 4. 20% Interest factors for annual compounding interest -- Values of learning theory