ABOUT THE COURSE:Learning about the Project Finance and Management is an important requirement for the budding professionals, entrepreneurs and managers in the industry. Project finance is an integral part of overall project management and requires deeper understanding of financial planning and control of new projects/ventures. Any start-up in itself is a new project and managing new venture requires a compete knowledge of different facets of project finance and management. To become a successful entrepreneur, one must know how to give shape to their ideas and convert them into successful ventures. For the existing firms, taking up new proposals for expansion, diversification and growth happens to be a challenging task and every new proposal is a new project itself. Thus, relevant sources/techniques of project finance and management help both entrepreneurs and managers to manage their ventures efficiently and effectively right from planning to review stage.INTENDED AUDIENCE: Both UG (BBA, BS) & PG (MBA, M. Com) Students, entrepreneurs, working professionals and startupsPREREQUISITES: Any students in the graduation or already a graduate.INDUSTRY SUPPORT: In all companies operating in manufacturing, services, IT or any other sector require Project Finance and Management professionals.

Syllabus

Week 1: Introduction to project management, project management for start-ups and existing firms, capital investment-importance & difficulties, types of capital investment, phases of capital budgeting, level of decision making, facets of project analysis, major investments-key issues, objectives of project management, common errors in project management.
Week 2:Generation & screening of project ideas, corporate appraisal, scouting for project ideas, Preliminary screening, project rating index, Project management and entrepreneurship.
Week 3:Market and demand analysis for new projects,Situational analysis, data collection, demand forecasting, market plan
Week 4:Project technical analysis, financial estimates and projections, cost of project, means of financing, Cost of production, working capital requirement & financing,profitability projections.
Week 5:Generation of Projected financial statements for new projects, cash flow projections, multi-year projections,
Week 6:Project evaluation/Investment criteria, Discounted criteria. Non-discounted criteria, Project cash flow analysis.
Week 7:Measurement of Cost of capital for new ventures, cost of debt, Cost of equity, WACC, Floatation cost and CoC.
Week 8:Project risk analysis, Sensitivity & scenario analysis, Break even analysis, Models of risk analysis.
Week 9:Financing of projects, Sources of financing projects, Debt and equity financing, Other sources, Working capital finance.
Week 10:Networking techniques, CPM, PERT, Network cost system.
Week 11:Forms of project organizations, Project planning and control, Human aspects of project management, Essence of project management, Analysis of project risk.
Week 12:Review of projects, Control of in-progress projects, The Post audit, Abandonment analysis, Administrative aspects of projects, Evaluating the new projects system of an organization.