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Economic renewal of industrial equipment

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Investment in Uncertainty

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In order for a modern industry to be able to carry out its productive function it must have recourse to certain means or production factors, among which equipment stands out. The classical consideration as fixed assets that these items have warranted from an accounting point of view, in present times has a relative sense. In fact, the rapid changes there have been in the life of companies convert this concept of fixed or permanence into a relative concept.

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Gil-Aluja, J. (1999). Economic renewal of industrial equipment. In: Investment in Uncertainty. Applied Optimization, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5328-7_16

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