Project Appraisal and Analysis

Paper Code: 
DBBA 503D
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

1. Understand the need for project framework and planning.

2. Understanding the principles of project planning

3. To know different proposals for the breakdown of "project cycle"

4. To identify project goals, constraints, deliverables, performance criteria, control needs, and resource requirements in consultation with stakeholders.

Course Outcomes (COs):

 

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment

Strategies

  
 

CO 214: Understand the need for project framework and planning;

CO 215: Understanding the principles of project planning;

CO 216: To know different proposals for the breakdown of "project cycle"

CO 217: To identify project goals, constraints, deliverables, performance criteria, control needs, and resource requirements in consultation with stakeholders.

CO 218: To learn the implementation of project management knowledge, processes, lifecycle and the embodied concepts, tools and techniques in order to achieve project success.

CO 219: Understand different crude investment criteria and their advantages and disadvantages.

CO 220: To learn various discounting investment criteria.

Approach in teaching:

 

Interactive Hours using whiteboards, Questioning & Discussion, Reading assignments, Frequent or unannounced quizzes.

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions,  presentation, Solving problems of unsolved questions

 

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz,  Assignments, Class interaction

  

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Project Management System

Project Management System: An introduction, Methodologies of Project Management, Phases of Project cycle: Project conception, Identification of project idea, Project feasibility analysis.
Project Appraisal: Definition, Scope and Steps in project appraisal.

12.00
Unit II: 
Market Analysis:

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

12.00
Unit III: 
Evaluation of project proposal:

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

12.00
Unit IV: 
Sensitivity Analysis

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.

12.00
Unit V: 
Cost Estimating

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

References: 

Machiraju, H.R.: Introduction to Project Finance, Vikas Publishing House
2. Prasanna Chandra: Project Preparation Appraisal Budgeting and Implementation, Tata McGraw.
3. M.R. Agarwal, Project Management, Garima Publications

Academic Year: 
2020-2021
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