• Students will be able to describe a project life cycle, and can skillfully map each stage in the cycle
• Students will identify the resources needed for each stage, including involved stakeholders, tools and supplementary materials.
• Students will describe the time needed to successfully complete a project, considering factors such as task dependencies and task lengths.
• Students will be able to provide internal stakeholders with information regarding project costs by considering factors such as estimated cost, variances and profits
Project: Concept, Definition, Characteristics, Importance and Challenges of a project. Life cycle of a project, Phases of Project Management
Project Formulation: Introduction, sequential stages of Project formulation.
Project Feasibility & Appraisal: Meaning, Scope, Types (Technical &Financial )
Financial planning & forecasting:- Meaning & nature, factors affecting financial planning , significance & limitation
Sources of finance:- Meaning, External & Internal sources of finance
Project planning & scheduling: Introduction, Scheduling Techniques (Bar Chart, Network based scheduling-PERT &CPM)
Project Organization: Functional & Matrix Organization
Social Cost Benefit Analysis: Meaning, Approaches
(UNIDO & L-M approach) and Shadow Pricing.
Market and Demand Analysis: Meaning , Features of the Market, Market Planning, Collection of secondary Information, Conduct of Market survey and Demand Forecasting
Capital Budgeting- Introduction, Discounted cash flow techniques: Present Value and IIR.
Cost of capital :- Meaning, computation of cost of debt, preference , equity Share capital & Weighted average cost of capital.
Case studies related to entire topics are to be taught
• Nagrajan .K Project management New Age International Publishers
• Agarwal, Mishra, “Project Management”, RBD, Jaipur
• Agarwal MR- “Financial Management” Garima Publication, Jaipur