This Investment Appraisal training course will guide you through the process of identifying and selecting new projects, preparing forecasts, and applying evaluation techniques, to ensure that only the best projects are approved for investment.
You will learn to identifying potential new projects that will fit with our medium and long term strategic plans, collect relevant data and constructing financial forecasts relating to our proposed projects, apply and calculate four popular appraisal methods, Accounting Rate of Return, Payback Period, Net Present Value, and Internal Rate of Return, refine the investment decision by considering the impact of inflation, taxation, and limitation of funds and incorporate the effect of risk and uncertainty in the appraisal process
By attending Investment Appraisal workshop, delegates will learn to:
- Explain why it is important for us to link new investments to our strategic plan
- Identify and measure the expectations of investors and explain why these are important to the decision making process
- Set up spreadsheets and apply the four main investment appraisal techniques to determine whether proposed investments are likely to be worthwhile
- Make necessary adjustments to incorporate the effect of inflation, taxation, and limited funds
- Apply various techniques for dealing with the effect of risk and uncertainty
The Investment Appraisal class is ideal for:
- Management accounting staff
- Strategic planners
- Management consultants
- Senior managers of any non-financial discipline
- Entrepreneurs