Project Management

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.