This chapter discusses the alternative investment criteria commonly used in the appraisal of investment projects. The net present value (NPV) of a project criterion is widely accepted by accountants, financial analysts, and economists as the one that yields the correct project choices in all...

The problem of estimating the discount rate level is a crucial issue in investment project appraisal procedure. The discount rate is strongly determined by the type of investment that sets the scope of decision criteria. The need to apply financial efficiency, economic efficiency or justice...

The social analysis of a project may be organized in to two parts: estimating how the income changes caused by the project are distributed across the stakeholder of the project, and identifying the impact of the project on the principal objectives (basic needs) of society. Another aspect of the...

The province of Benguet is lacking in medical health services. The province has 165 public hospital beds, of which no more than 138 are in use, and 171 private hospital beds. While total number of beds is 336, the actual number in use is 309 beds. The inadequate number of beds coupled with the...

The scope of the analyses of public and private investment projects is expanded beyond the traditional criteria of financial and economic net present value. If the economic and financial analyses are carried out using a common numeraire, they can include issues of stakeholder impacts, poverty...

Since the start of the European Union Structural Funding Programs 2007-2013, especially those focused on financing investments proposed by private companies, a big change seems to be taken place. Large numbers of companies have applied for grants within these programs and especially for funding...

„Information gives you power” is the slogan that guides companies nowadays, the world competition being carried out in the filed of using the most efficient information and the newest technologies and instruments of communication. The informational system of the financial- economic analysis...

The IFIs analyze methodology of investment projects based on dynamic methods of assessment and financial analysis in which the predominant component is to update the flow of revenues and expenses. IFIs have adopted the method of analysis based on internal rate of return (financial and economic),...

The emergence and development of new technologies, in which information and knowledge play a crucial role, the transition from industrial economy to modern society and then to postmodern society have led to compression of time and space and to the intensification of economic, social and politic...

The Alegria Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) is one of the largest wastewater treatment plants in Brazil. It is owned by the Companhia Estadual de Aguas e Esgotos, the state agency that manages and treats most of the sewage water in Rio. Sewage at the WWTP is treated through several different...