Cost - Benefit analysis

Start date: 00-00-0000

Price: 500 AZN

12 hours (three times a week for 4 hours)

Finance managers, Investment project managers, Specialists monitoring investment projects

Azerbaijan

Introduction

Module 1.Essence of Cost - Benefit analysis

• Significance of Cost - Benefit analysis
• Local & international experience on Cost - Benefit analysis
• Principles of considering various recourses in Cost - Benefit analysis
• Current & future values

Module 2.Cash flow chart

• Investment and project operation expenses
• Expected income & rules of entering them into examination table

Module 3.Investment selection criteria

• Net Present Value
• Internal Rate of Returnee
• Cost - Benefit comparison
• Investment Return period and etc.

Module 4. Analysis of Cost - Benefit from various angles

• Definition of benefit and cost matters and project profitability from the owners/investors position
• Selection among alternative investments and rules of prioritizing possible investments
• Cost - Benefit analysis from crediting position

Module 5. Various criteria influencing investment

• Impact of taxes, subsidy and depreciation on project profitability and ways of its improvement
• Rules of entering into project decision-making model recourse values left after project implementation
• Definition of account receivable, account payable, inventory and cash-account remainder, their impact on project decision-making, and their improvement in terms of project profitability
• Accounting inflation and exchange rate changes
• Rules of improving investment or project finance indicators considering inflation and exchange rate changes
• Selecting the best size and volume, and also starting period and duration of the project
• Long-term investment strategy approach and comprehensive analysis in terms of all financial indicators
• Investment risk analysis and management theory, used statistic concepts and methodology
• Risk approach principles
• Possible variation in entering parameters and measuring their impact on investment or project profitability
• Finding harmless costs and implementation of possible strategies
• Rules of taking into account errors in initial parameters and forecasts on investment
• Definition of impact caused by initial parameters and forecasts changes on investment and project profitability
• Expected values of alternative investments and projects; measures of mitigation, transfer and prediction of unexpected circumstances; risk premiums and their impact on selection
• Comprehensive analysis of investment profitability and project profitability along with risks and rules of selection among different options
• Subjective factors impacting selection
• Optimizing investment portfolio, and sorting investment and project options according to their prioritization

Module 6. Information source of analysis

• Information needed for Cost - Benefit analysis, their analysis and methods of use
• Alternative approaches to Cost - Benefit analysis and their joint use

Module 7. Ethic problems in income/expenses analysis

• Ethic issues in Cost - Benefit analysis and decision-making and progressive experience in this area
• Continuous use of Cost - Benefit and risk analysis, matters of institutionalization within an organization and also division

• most progressive methodology of Cost - Benefit analysis,
• full implementation of income/expenses analysis and alternative methods on a real investment project,
• selection, prioritization among alternative investments, and optimization of portfolio,
• risk analysis of investments and use of the computer program; and their full application in their (or their organization’s) real investment project.