Project Analysis

Project Analysis

1 Concept and Significance of Project

  1. Meaning and Concept of a Project
  2. Features of a Project
  3. Project Concept
  4. Plan and Project Relationship
  5. Significance of Project

2 Project Preparation Aspects and Project Cycle

  1. Types of Projects
  2. Aspects in Project Preparation
  3. Project Cycle

3 Project Costs and Benefits

  1. Conceptual Issues in Costs and Benefits Assessment
  2. Tangible vs. Intangible Costs and Benefits
  3. Direct vs. Indirect Costs and Benefits

4 Pricing Project Costs and Benefits

  1. Prices Reflect Value
  2. Finding Market Prices
  3. Predicting Future Prices
  4. Prices for Internationally Traded Commodities

5 Farm Investment Analysis

  1. Objectives of Financial Analysis
  2. Preparing for the Farm Investment Analysis
  3. Elements of Farm Investment Analysis
  4. Net Benefit Increase
  5. Unit Activity Budget

6 Financial Analysis of Agri -Business Firm

  1. Balance Sheet
  2. Assets
  3. Liabilities
  4. Income Statement
  5. Cash Flow Statement
  6. Financial Ratios
  7. Efficiency Ratios
  8. Income Ratios
  9. Credit Worthiness Ratios
  10. Financial Rate of Return

7 Determining Economic Values

  1. Concept of Economic Values
  2. Theoretical Considerations
  3. Shadow Prices
  4. Estimating Economic Values
  5. Adjusting Financial Prices to Economic Values
  6. Premium on Foreign Exchange
  7. Trade Policy Impact
  8. Valuation of Intangible Costs and Benefits

8 Aggregating Project Accounts

  1. Theoretical Issues in Aggregating Project Accounts
  2. Various Aggregate Measures
  3. Concepts of Value Added
  4. Farm Budgets
  5. Aggregating Farm Budgets
  6. Domestic Product Measurement
  7. Difficulties in Measuring Domestic Product
  8. Wholesale Prices, Consumer Prices, and Inflation
  9. Uses of Aggregate Measures

9 Project Cost Benefit Analysis Methods

  1. Undiscounted Measures of Project Worth
  2. The Time Value of Money
  3. Discounted Measures of Project Worth
  4. Net Present Worth (NPW)
  5. Benefit-Cost Ratio (B-C Ratio)
  6. Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
  7. Profitability Index
  8. Net Benefit Investment Ratio

10 Applications of Discounted Measures of Project Worth

  1. Sensitivity Analysis
  2. Switching Value
  3. Choosing Among Mutually Exclusive Alternatives
  4. Entirely Different Projects
  5. Different Timings of a Project
  6. Choice Between Technologies
  7. Additional Purposes in Multipurpose Projects
  8. Replacement Cost
  9. Residual Value
  10. Domestic Resource Cost