Both engineering economy and finance focus their introductory courses on the time value of money. Yet, in spite of this shared foundation, those courses are very different. This paper discusses what these differences are, why they occur, and what the disciplines can offer each other. The goal is to help textbook authors and classroom teachers in each field to do a better job of learning from each other. This paper is written from the perspective of an engineering economist with over 30 years of teaching and textbook writing experience, who has recently had his world-view shifted by multiple forays into finance classrooms.
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