Return On Software: Maximizing The Return On Your Software Investment(Hardcover)
暫譯: 軟體回報：最大化您的軟體投資回報（精裝版）

Table of Contents:

I. INTRODUCTION AND FOUNDATIONS.

 1. Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment.

 2. Business on Purpose.

 3. The Fundamental Concepts of Business Decisions.

 4. The Business Decision-Making Process.

 5. Interest: the Time Value of Money.

 6. Other Interest(ing) Calculations.

 7. Equivalence.

 8. Bases for Comparison.

 9. Developing Mutually Exclusive Alternatives.

II. MAKING FOR-PROFIT BUSINESS DECISIONS.

10. For-Profit Decision Analysis.

11. Planning Horizons and Economic Life.

12. Replacement and Retirement Decisions.

III. ADVANCED FOR-PROFIT DECISION TECHNIQUES.

13. Inflation and Deflation.

14. Depreciation.

15. General Accounting and Cost Accounting.

16. Income Taxes and After-tax Cash Flow Streams.

17. The Consequences of Income Taxes on Business Decisions.

IV. MAKING DECISIONS IN GOVERNMENT AND NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.

18. Making Not-For-Profit Business Decisions.

V. PRESENT ECONOMY.

19. Break-Even Analysis.

20. Optimization.

VI. ESTIMATION, RISK, AND UNCERTAINTY.

21. Basic Estimation Concepts.

22. General Estimation Techniques.

23. Allowing for Inaccuracy in Estimates.

24. Decision Making Under Risk.

25. Decision Making under Uncertainty.

VII. MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE DECISIONS.

26. Decisions Based on Multiple Attributes.

VIII. SUMMARY.

27. Closing Remarks.

Appendix A. Software Project Work Breakdown Structures.

Appendix B. Interest Tables.

Appendix C. Linear Interpolation.

Appendix D. Derivatives.

Appendix E. Introduction to Probability and Statistics.

Appendix F. Answers to Selected Self-study Questions.

Appendix G. Glossary.

References.

Index.