Cost Benefit Analysis or Enterprise Resources Planning and Beyond Integrating Your Entire Organization

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Author: Richard Layard

This second edition covers all the main problems that arise in a typical cost-benefit exercise. It is entirely up to date, reflecting the most recent research in the area.

Part One covers the main theoretical issues affecting cost-benefit analysis.

Part Two considers the problem of ascribing a monetary value to things. The third part covers six separate case studies drawn from real-life examples. The book begins with an extended elementary introduction written by the editors.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
1	Shadow prices and markets: Policy reform, shadow prices and market prices	59
2	Shadow prices and markets: Feasibility constraints: foreign exchange and shadow wages	100
3	Discount rates: The rate of discount for benefit-cost analysis and the theory of the second best	116
4	Risk and uncertainty: Uncertainty and the evaluation of public investment decisions	160
5	Income distribution: Allowing for income distribution	179
6	The costs and benefits of analysis: Project appraisal and planning twenty years on	199
7	Time savings: Research into the value of time	235
8	Safety and the saving of life: The theory of equalizing differences	272
9	Safety and the saving of life: The economics of safety and physical risk	290
10	The environment: The environment and emerging development issues	319
11	Exhaustible resources: Resource depletion, research and development and the social rate of discount	349
12	Regulation and deregulation: Enhancing the performance of the deregulated air transportation system	375
13	Pricing: Pricing and congestion: economic principles relevant to pricing roads	396
14	Public transport: The allocation of urban public transport subsidy	418
15	Health care: QALYs and the equity-efficiency tradeoff	428
16	Infrastructure: Water vending activities in developing countries	448
17	The environment: Assessing the social rate of return from investment in temperate zone forestry	464
	Index	491

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Enterprise Resources Planning and Beyond Integrating Your Entire Organization

Author: Gary A Langenwalter

To achieve success in today's business climate you must do more than provide high quality low cost products to customers when and how they want them. Customers and suppliers require fully integrated information - throughout the supply chain or value chain. You must integrate your organization so completely that executive decisions are implemented effortlessly. Competitive pressures often cause a reduction in prices, in spite of continually rising costs. A decrease in prices paired with increased costs quickly eliminates any profitability and threatens your company's ability to survive. This book shows you how you can reduce costs through the elimination of waste caused by poor communication and coordination throughout a company as well as between the company, its suppliers, and its customers. The author explains Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in non-technical terms, describing how an ERP system can fully integrate all functions in your manufacturing organization. He demonstrates the system's capability to increase efficiency and profitability - and to delight the customer - as well as its current deficiencies. In addition to his thorough coverage of ERP, the author introduces Total Enterprise Integration (TEI), the process of integrating all the information required to fully support a manufacturing company. TEI represents a logical extension of complete information integration throughout a manufacturing enterprise and into the supply chain. This new concept shows you how the intelligent use of work flow allows responsibility to go to the most appropriate front-line decision makers while maintaining proper budgetary and operational controls. The power of TEI is in the integrationof communication across the entire manufacturing company, and out through the supply chain to customers and suppliers. Enterprise Resource Planning and Beyond: Integrating Your Entire Organization focuses on what a fully integrated system can do for you.