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PROJECT INVESTMENT ANALYSIS AND DECISON-MAKING

What is a “sound” investment decision?
How to find a “real” profitable project?
Why do most investment projects fail to achieve expected return?
How to systematically measure financial return of an investment project?
How to set up an effective appraisal system to ensure a quality investment decision?
This course aims to systematically analyze the common problems occurring in investment programs, such as mergers, assets acquisition, facilities construction and cost optimization, through introducing investment theories and presenting various investment case analyses to improve investment decision quality and achieve the expected investment return.

Training Objectives

To use investment evaluation tools and methodologies to ensure the validity and applicability of the key appraisal indices
To learn the method of systematic analysis on relative indices and to understand the opportunities and risks behind figures
To optimize projects and find out the best investment option by analyzing the investment return and risk in depth
To establish an effective appraisal process to ensure the project is correctly implemented and executed

Training Attendees

Senior management, participants of the investment decision making process
Staff working in investment, assets management, M&A, business development and financial departments
All staff involved in investment decision making (such as financial managers, financial analysts, planning and performance managers)


	Training Outline

	Foundation of Investment Decision Making
	Concepts and types of investments
	How to define the quality of an investment decision?
	Golden rules of investment decision making
	Most Commonly Used Tools and Methodology
	Discounted cash flow analysis (DCF)
	Postulate and structure of DCF
	Computation and application of 4 key indices of investment evaluation
	Why cash flow not income after tax?
	Analysis on cash flow
	The impacts of working capital on project evaluation
	Common mistakes in an economic model
	Other evaluation methodologies
	“Read the story behind the figures”---How to Make Quality Investment Decisions Through Data Analysis?
	How to make the right assumption and forecast?
	The right way to conduct sensitivity analysis

	Source of project value – why these projects failed to generate expected return?
	How to optimize an investment project – how to achieve maximum output with minimum input?
	Investment Decision in Mergers and Acquisitions
	A zero sum game? Or even worse…?
	Three strategic considerations in mergers and acquisitions
	Value chain and margin pool analysis – “Where do we want to play?”
	Pricing – “How much should we pay?”
	Source of value – “How are we going to win?”
	Other evaluation indices used in economic evaluation
	Process Does Matter
	Comparison of two investment appraisal processes – which one will you choose?
	How to review / develop a feasibility study report?
	Post investment review – “Does it hit our target?”