10ME71 Economics syllabus for ME


Part A
Unit-1 Introduction 8 hours

Engineering Decision-Makers, Engineering and Economics, Problem solving and Decision making, Intuition and Analysis, Tactics and Strategy. Engineering Economic Decision, Maze. Law of demand and supply, Law of returns, Interest and Interest factors: Interest rate, Simple interest, Compound interest, Cash - flow diagrams, Personal loans and EMI Payment, Exercises and Discussion.

Unit-2 Present-Worth Comparisons 6 hours

Conditions for present worth comparisons, Basic Present worth comparisons, Present-worth equivalence, Net Presentworth, Assets with unequal lives, infinite lives, Future-worth comparison, Pay-back comparison, Exercises, Discussions and problems.

Unit-3 Equivalent Annual-Worth Comparisons 6 hours

Equivalent Annual-Worth Comparison methods, Situations for Equivalent Annual-Worth Comparisons, Consideration of asset life, Comparison of assets with equal and unequal lives, Use of shrinking fund method, Annuity contract for guaranteed income, Exercises, Problems.

Unit-4 Rate-Of-Return Calculations And Depreciation 6 hours

Rate of return, Minimum acceptable rate of return, IRR, IRR misconceptions, Cost of capital concepts. Causes of Depreciation, Basic methods of computing depreciation charges, Tax concepts, corporate income tax.

Part B
Unit-5 Estimating and Costing 5 hours

Components of costs such as Direct Material Costs, Direct Labor Costs, Fixed Over-Heads, Factory cost, Administrative Over-Heads, First cost, Marginal cost, Selling price, Estimation for simple components.

Unit-6 Introduction, Scope Of Finance, Finance Functions 8 hours

Statements of Financial Information: Introduction, Source of financial information, Financial statements, Balance sheet, Profit and Loss account, relation between Balance sheet and Profit and Loss account. Simple Numericals

Unit-7 Financial Ratio Analysis 6 hours

Introduction, Nature of ratio analysis, Liquidity ratios, Leverage ratios, Activity ratios, Profitability ratios, Evaluation of a firm's earning power. Comparative statements analysis. Simple numericals

Unit-8 Financial And Profit Planning 7 hours

Introduction, Financial planning, Profit planning, Objectives of profit planning, Essentials of profit planning, Budget administration, type of budgets, preparation of budgets, advantages, problems and dangers of budgeting. Introduction to Bench Marking of Manufacturing Operation.

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