Quick-Silver User Guide (Draft)

<br /><br /> Quick-Silver is a fast, flexible program for financial and economic analysis of resource management and capital investment projects. It provides a convenient and consistent way to figure the dollars and cents criteria needed to determine if one management action costs less or has a better payoff than another. Quick-Silver helps standardize economic analysis methods through sharing of project files and a comprehensive set of user-defined management activities so that the same costs and benefits can be used for similar projects.<br /><br /> While Quick-Silver doesn't project the consequences of management -- timber yields or other forest outputs -- users have plenty of flexibility to build project alternatives by including costs, revenues, and non-market benefits that occur now and are expected in the future. Once all the project alternatives and their costs, revenues, and benefits are defined, Quick-Silver takes over to calculate a variety of financial and&nbsp; economic measures, such as:<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> Present Net Value (PNV)<br /><br /><br /><br /> Benefit/Cost Ratio (B/C)<br /><br /><br /><br /> Net Annual Equivalent (NAE)<br /><br /><br /><br /> Internal Rate of Return (IRR<br /><br /><br /><br /> Annual Cash flows<br /><br /> Reports are available that may be exported into MS Office format, ready for inclusion in NEPA documents, administrative reports, or publications. [from Manual]<br /><br />