Stochastic Variations of Commonly Used Discounted Cash Flow Formulae.

Abstract

Standard texts in Engineering Economy, Capital Allocation Theory, Finance, Managerial Economics and/or Economic Analysis develop and list equations for various cases of discounted cash flow analysis. In these tests the independent variables and/or parameters are assumed to be known deterministically. In practice, however, it is often difficult to establish values for these variables with certainty. Yet, it is often possible to establish for such values the distributions and its parameters. This paper lists the stochastic formulations for each of the commonly used equations for various combinations and permutations of distributions. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0726883

Entities

People

  • Arnold Reisman
  • Arza K. Rao

Organizations

  • Case Western Reserve University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Economic Analysis
  • Economics
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Permutations
  • Standards

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Industrial Economics
  • Statistical inference.