Course Description
The overall aim of this course is to provide participants with competencies required to prepare, analyze and evaluate feasibility studies. The course involves building a feasibility study financial model using hands-on training on Microsoft Excel. The course also aims at enabling participants to appraise service and industrial investments using different capital budgeting techniques as well as analyzing the related financial parameters.
What Do Participants Learn?
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Define 'feasibility study' and compare it to 'business plan'
- Identify the crucial elements in the feasibility study
- Build the feasibility study financial model using Microsoft Excel
- Apply different investment appraisal methods and analyze financial parameters Analyze the feasibility study and find its merits and shortcomings
Who Should Attend?
- Project sponsors
- senior management
- functional managers
- project managers and individuals involved in preparing, writing and analyzing feasibility studies.
- This course is worth 30 Professional Development Units (PDUs).
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One:
- Introduction and definitions
- Definitions of 'feasibility study'Objectives of a feasibility study
- Feasibility study versus business plan
- Feasibility study cyclePreparation steps for a feasibility study
Section Two:
- Feasibility study elements
- Report elements of the feasibility study
- Executive summaryOutline of the feasibility study
- Marketing feasibility
- Market research and analysis
- Market research data types
- Sales projections analysis
- Technical feasibility
- Critical technical questions
- Supply feasibility
- Operational feasibility
- Financial feasibility
- Project costs
- Indirect costs
- Ongoing costs
Section Three:
- Feasibility study financial model using Microsoft Excel
- Building the financial model of the feasibility study
- Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
- Cost of equity using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
- Unlevered Free Cash Flow (UFCF)
- Terminal value of the projectPreparing sensitivity tables
- Creating different scenario analyses
Section Four:
- Appraisal and analysis of the feasibility study
- Financial analysis parameters
- Liquidity ratiosOperating ratios
- Financial leverage ratiosSecurity ratios
- Profitability ratiosInvestment appraisal analyses
- Quantity and sales Breakeven Points (BEP)
- Payback Period (PP)
- Net Present Value (NPV)
- Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- Profitability Index (PI)
Section Five:
- Evaluation and implementation of the feasibility study
- Internal recommendations and conclusions
- Evaluating feasibility studies
- Common mistakes in using the feasibility study results
- Implementing the proposals