This text covers global and domestic competition, marketing strategies, operating expenses, and environmental and safety regulations for chemical professionals at all levels. It features up-to-date mergers and acquisitions of chemical companies.

This reference outlines the fundamental concepts and strategies used to perform effective financial studies and economic assessments for informed management decisions in industry. It illustrates approaches to prepare capital cost and operating expense estimates, profitability analyses and feasibility studies and to execute sensitivity and uncertainty assessments.