Benefit-Cost Analysis offers the perfect introduction to benefit#cost analysis. The book closely integrates the theory and practice of benefit#cost analysis using a spreadsheet framework. The spreadsheet model is constructed in a truly original way which contributes to transparency, provides a check on the accuracy of the analysis, and facilitates sensitivity, risk and alternative scenario assessment. A case study incorporating the various issues is progressively developed on a spreadsheet with the links between each stage thoroughly explained. The complete case study spreadsheet can serve as a template for the reader#s own appraisal of projects in the field INDICE 1. Benefit-Cost Analysis - Introduction and overview; 2. Investment appraisal: principles; 3. Investment appraisals: Decision Rules; 4. Private Benefit-Cost Analysis - Financial Analysis; 5. Efficiency benefit#cost analysis; 6. Calculating the Net Benefits to the Referent Group; 7. Consumer and Producer Surplus in Benefit-Cost Analysis; 8. Valuing Traded and Non-traded Commodities in Benefit-Cost Analysis; 9. Incorporating Risk in Benefit-Cost Analysis; 10. The Social Discount Rate, Cost of Public Funds, and the Value of Information; 11. Weighting Net Benefits to Account for Income Distribution; 12. Valuation of Non- marketed Goods; 13. Economic impact analysis; 14. Writing the Benefit- Cost Analysis Report