Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
(EN) Project Appraisal
2. Language of Instruction:
Tiếng Anh
3. Course Code:
MAN502095
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 introduces an overview of investment project appraisal, thereby helping students understand the important concepts related to the analysis and making of project investment decisions, understand the appraisal stages and analytical framework for a specific investment project.
- Part two equips knowledge related to investment project cashflow analysis to estimate net cash flow and calculate project quantitative evaluation criteria as well as the implications of the indicators in making investment decision. This section also equips students with skills in building financial models and converting from financial analysis to project economic analysis through Excel spreadsheet processing.
- The third part focuses on the different funding sources that can be mobilized for the project and determines the appropriate discount rate to discount a project's cash flow from different cash flow perspectives.
- Section 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 risk analysis methods using excel software and Crystal Ball software in evaluating the effectiveness of investment projects.
The relationship between the subject's output standards and other subjects:
- Students can use their knowledge of this subject in project management in terms of project initiation and selection.
- Knowledge of this subject can also be used to perform topics for required internships