Análise Económica e Financeira de Investimentos

This course aims to give to Engineering students a set of concepts, principles, technics and appropriate methods to approach and solve representative problems of real-world situations within the Engineering Economics, such as the designing, planning and implementation of projects.

Essentially based on a practical approach, this course emphazises the benefits of concepts such as the time value of the money, the equivalence of interest rates, the cost/benefit analysis and the break-even analysis. Such concepts give to the student the knowledge to make investment decisions in a context of certainty, risk and uncertainty, supporting the choice of the best investment alternative.