The authors present an easy-to-use guide to investment planning for forest enterprises. it is aimed at managers of public forests and private forest contractors to be used as a practical and easy-to-use tool in planning investment in various forest machinery. Considering the target group, the authors have tried to restrict theoretical explanations to an absolute minimum.
The guide instructs the reader how to:
• plan an investment project systematically
• properly compile the most important tools for the decision-making process
• perceive and evaluate the implicatiöns of an investment for the enterprise
• recognize the importance of operational investment objectives.
The succession of the planning stages is demonstrated in three practical examples dealing with the replacement of a forestry tractor, investment in a harvester and in a winch.