The Evaluation of Risk in Business Investment (Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Social Studies) - Softcover

Hull, J. C.

9780080240749: The Evaluation of Risk in Business Investment (Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Social Studies)

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ISBN 10: 0080240747 ISBN 13: 9780080240749

Publisher: Pergamon, 2014

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Provides finance specialists in industry and students of management with a comprehensive set of practical procedures for evaluating the total risk in the major capital investment decisions facing a business. It discusses in detail how companies can make effective use of sensitivity analyses, risk simulations and other techniques, and deals in depth with important issues, such as: How should the results of a sensitivity analysis be interpreted? How can adequate subjective probability distributions be obtained? How can dependencies between variables be dealt with in a practical way? The emphasis throughout is on 'how to do it' and the reader needs only a slight knowledge of statistics. A particularly important feature of the book is the FORTRAN subroutines in Appendices A and B which the author prepared for calculating risk evaluations

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