Investment appraisal includes all the methods allowing an evaluation of the viability of an investment. The main thing is to quantify and summarize the financial consequences of an investment so as to be able to provide a recommendation.


Investment appraisal represents the main aid in making investment decisions in over 50 % of cases, and, regardless of the decision, is important for the preselection and recalculation.


Harry Zingel explains in an easily comprehensible manner the types of investment, reasons and methods used in deciding on an investment. Alongside the traditional statistical and dynamic methods, emphasis is also placed on methods taken from capital market investments.