Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Project Appraisal
2. Language of Instruction:
Tiếng Việt
3. Course Code:
MAN502010
4. Credits:
3
5. Course Objectives:
- Understand the basic concepts and approaches to theoretical principles and their practical applications in the appraisal of investment projects.
- Understand and systematically apply basic quantitative analysis tools on benefits and costs to estimate funds and calculate efficiency indicators of investment projects; at the same time explain how such analyses can be applied from many different angles, i.e. from the perspective of investors, banks and the country in general.
- Understand risk analysis techniques and apply these techniques in combination with the ability to process excel-based spreadsheets and specialized software to assess the risk of a specific investment project and note risk mitigation solutions if the project is decided to invest
- Know how to make sound choices about the effective allocation of resources in project investment decisions based on the trade-off between profit and risk.
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
This course is divided into 5 parts
- Part one provides an overview of investment project appraisal, thereby helping students understand important concepts related to investment analysis and decision making, understand the stages of appraisal and framework for analyzing a particular investment project.
- Part two equips the knowledge related to investment project cashflow analysis to estimate net cash flows and calculate the project quantitative appraisal criteria as well as the application significance of the criteria in the decision-making process. investment decision. This section also equips students with skills in building financial models and converting from financial analysis to project economic analysis through processing Excel-based spreadsheets.
- Part three focuses on examining the different sources of funding that can be raised for the project and determining the appropriate discount rate to discount the project's cash flows from different cashflow perspectives.
- Part four describes how to analyze the impact of inflation on investment project cash flows.
- Part five introduces investment project risk analysis techniques and equips students with methods of risk analysis using excel software and Crystal Ball software in evaluating investment project effectiveness.
The relationship between the output standards of the subject and other subjects:
- Students can use the knowledge of this subject in project management in terms of project initiation and selection.
The knowledge of this subject can also be used to implement the subject for the compulsory internship.