The Investment Analysis System is an interactive environment for analyzing the time-value of money for a variety of investments:

• loans

• savings

• depreciations

• bonds

• generic cash flows

Various tools are provided to help analyze the value of investment alternatives: time value, periodic equivalent, internal rate of return, benefit-cost ratio, and breakeven analysis.

These analyses can help answer a number of questions you might have about your investments:

• Which option is more profitable or less costly?

• Is it better to buy or rent?

• Are the extra fees for refinancing at a lower interest rate justified?

• What is the balance of this account after saving this amount periodically for so many years?

• How much is legally tax-deductible?

• Is this a reasonable price?

Investment Analysis can be beneficial to users in many industries for a variety of decisions:

• manufacturing: cost justification of automation or any capital investment, replacement analysis of major equipment, or economic comparison of alternative designs

• government: setting funds for services

• finance: investment analysis and portfolio management for fixed-income securities