Section 15 of 21
Engineering Economics
Time value of money, depreciation, and benefit-cost analysis
- p229-236page range
- 8pages long
- 11subsections
- 20drill items
What the section holds
Nomenclature and definitions, non-annual compounding, breakeven analysis, inflation, depreciation and book value, taxation, capitalized costs, bonds, rate of return, and benefit-cost analysis. The interest factor tables that carry the compound amount and present worth factors are inside this section.
Why it matters for your exam
Every single discipline specification examines engineering economics, and the Industrial and Systems specification gives it one of its largest allocations. The factor tables are the most reached-for tables in the whole handbook.
How to navigate it
Almost every definition in this section lands on one or two pages, so the whole conceptual part is scannable at a glance. What takes the space is the interest factor tables at the end. Practice jumping to those tables directly.
Search terms that land here
interest rate tables | present worth | depreciation | benefit-cost | capitalized cost
Subsections, in handbook order
These are the headings the handbook itself uses. The page number beside each is where it begins.
- Nomenclature and Definitionsp229
- Bondsp230
- Book Valuep230
- Breakeven Analysisp230
- Capitalized Costsp230
- Depreciationp230
- Inflationp230
- Non-Annual Compoundingp230
- Rate-of-Returnp230
- Taxationp230
- Benefit-Cost Analysisp231
Disciplines that use this section
Page numbers here are read from handbook version 10.5 (seventh printing, April 2025), which runs to 502 pages. NCEES revises the handbook and page numbers move with it, which is why the drill asks which section a topic lives in rather than which page. Check the version of your own copy, downloaded free from NCEES.