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PART V: INVESTMENT IN CAPITAL ASSETS

Link-sets

Tax

TI BAII PLUS™ Information



• Baseline: The Project Management Center. Case studies, tools and "best practices" for better project and process management.
  http://www.baselinemag.com/
• Capital Budgeting Calculator. Online calculator courtesy of Mark A. Lane, Ph.D.
  http://www.jufinance.com/npv/
• "Capital Budgeting and Initial Cash Outlay (ICO) Uncertainty". Article from "Financial Decisions" addresses how to properly treat ICO uncertaining in the capital budgeting process. Also uses sensitivity analysis to illustrate the impact of ICO risk.
  http://www.financialdecisionsonline.org/current/EhrhardtWachowicz.pdf
• Executive Guide: Leading Practices in Capital Decision-Making. This U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) special report (GAO/AIMD-98-110) has some really excellent capital budgeting advice and examples for both private- and public-sector organizations.
  https://www.gao.gov/products/aimd-98-110
• Free Excel Spreadsheets. A huge selection of free Excel spreadsheets -- many useful for capital budgeting analysis.
  http://www.exinfm.com/free_spreadsheets.html
• "How Do CFOs Make Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Decisions?". Compressed version of a paper that won the Jensen prize for the best JFE paper in corporate finance in 2001.
  http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~charvey/Research/Published_Papers/P76_How_do_CFOs.pdf
• "The Impact of Bonus Depreciation on Project Decision Making." Article from Financial Decisions, Winter 2011, develops an Excel model -- – useful to students, academics, and business professionals that values the impact of government driven increases in temporary first-year depreciation allowances, known as "bonus depreciation." For more on this paper, see Bonus Depreciation Website.
  http://www.financialdecisionsonline.org/current/KuhlemeyerWachowiczWinter2011.pdf
• Investment Science. A resource for anyone interested in the field of investment science and real options: business executives, academia, and individual investors.
  http://www.investmentscience.com/
• Linear Interpolation Equation Formula Calculator. Sometimes we are forced to use trial-and-error plus interpolation to find the approximate Internal Rate of Return (IRR) for a project. This online calculator helps you with the interpolation.
  http://www.ajdesigner.com/phpinterpolation/linear_interpolation_equation.php
• Net Present Value Calculator. Courtesy of Investopedia.com.
  http://www.investopedia.com/calculator/NetPresentValue.aspx
• The Project Management Institute (PMI). The leading nonprofit professional association in the area of Project Management. Learn about Project Management standards, seminars, educational programs, professional certification, and more.
  http://www.pmi.org/
• Research Randomizer. Instant random sampling and random assignment -- designed to assist researchers and students who want to perform random sampling.
  http://www.randomizer.org/
• Tax Web Sites
  1. Corporation Income Tax Brackets and Rates, 1902-2002. Nice article and table from the IRS gives the history of Federal income tax brackets and rates from 1902 through 2002.
     http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/02corate.pdf
  2. Federation of Tax Administrators. Provides a wealth of state tax research and information.
     http://www.taxadmin.org/
  3. Small Business Taxes & Management. Great tax and management guidance for small and medium-sized businesses. See especially, Federal Depreciation Rates and Corporate and Individual Tax Rates.
     http://www.smbiz.com/
  4. Tax Facts. Great source of current and historical tax information plus analyses -- a projest of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution.
     http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/
  5. U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
     http://www.irs.gov/
  6. U.S. Tax Code On-Line. Allows access to the complete text of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
     http://www.fourmilab.ch/ustax/ustax.html
• TI BAII PLUS™ Business Calculator Information
  1. BAII PLUS Tutorial. Courtesy of Dr. Timothy Mayes
     http://web.archive.org/web/20060225053618/http://clem.mscd.edu/~mayest/calculators/baiiplus.htm
• Z-Score and Normal Distribution Java Applets. Links to Java applets useful for finding probabilities related to normal distributions.
  http://psych.colorado.edu/~mcclella/java/zcalc.html

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