Project Appraisal and Analysis

Project Management System: An introduction, methodologies of Project Management System, Phases of Project cycle: Project conception, Identification of project idea, Project feasibility analysis & preparation of Project report.
Project Appraisal: Examination of various aspects of project, Project selection and investment decision, Project execution or implementation, Project completion.

Market Analysis: Concept, Steps of Market analysis: Specification of objectives, Collection of market information, Characterisation of the market, Demand forecasting: Jury method, Delphi method, collective opinion method, Market research method, semi- average method, moving average, least square method.

Evaluation of project proposal: Concept, techniques of evaluation of project proposal- DCF and NDCF techniques
Risk analysis: Concept, kinds of project risk, Risk evaluation techniques: Risk adjusted discount rate, Certainty equivalent, Probability approach, measures of dispersion- standard deviation, co-efficient of variation

Sensitivity Analysis: Concept, objectives, procedure, methods of Sensitivity Analysis – Percentage change approach, accounting break -even approach, NPV break- even approach.
Project planning: Concept, objectives, content of project plan, steps in developing a project plan, Project master plan , Project scheduling- kinds & benefits.

Cost Estimating: concept, significance, cost estimation process. Project Budgeting: concept and elements of budgeting, Techniques of evaluation of project, Final project report.