أبحاث إقتصادية معاصرة
Volume 8, Numéro 1, Pages 457-476
2025-04-30

Using The Shortest Path Method In Analyzing The Productive Life Of The Investment

Authors : Cherif Mohamed . Abed Ali . Belhaouas Salima .

Abstract

The objective of this study is how to analyze the useful life of the investment in order to replace it with another investment, which is one of the quantitative mathematical methods and this method depends on calculating the expected costs of investment during future years and then work on analyzing these costs in a way that is the shortest path in the network It was found through the applied study that the institution will buy a machine on 01/01/2019 and the process of using it for two years and then selling it on 31/12/2020, to replace it with another machine on 01/01/2021 and run it during The years 2021, 2022 and 2023 and sold on 31/12/2023.

Keywords

shortest path ; cost analysis ; network analysis