Comprehensive Program on Feasibility Study for Projects

This course will discuss :

-Defining feasibility studies and studying markets

-Social and national profitability

-Marketing study

-Technical study

-Financial study and profit analysis for the project

-The use of Computer Model for Feasibility Analysis and Reporting (COMFAR) , feasibility studies’ program developed by the UNIDO

Need & Benefit

§ This package is designed to enable trainees to :

-Achieve a wise investment decision from the individual and social perspectives

-Select investment projects with the highest possible net profit

-Help economic policy makers in the developing countries to evaluate available investment opportunities

-Obtain appropriate licenses and approvals

-Applying all above with COMFAR III Software

Who Should Attend ?

§ This course is targeted for Governmental employees.

§ Managers and head of departments.

§ Financial, operations and planning specialists.

§ Business owners and/ or new investors.

Course Outlines & Details

Day One :

§ Introduction to feasibility studies

§ Applicable rules and regulation

§ Areas of feasibility studies

§ Difference between pre‐feasibility and detailed studies

§ Social, cultural, religious and location study (Marketing study)

§ Segmenting the market

§ Studying the potential market and the potential demand

Day Two :

§ (Marketing study cont’d)

§ Potential demand indicators

§ Estimation of the demand gap

§ Estimation of the implicit demand gap

§ Other indicators of potential market

§ Projection of market demand

§ Simple linear regression

§ Quadratic linear regression (Case study applied)

§ Projection of exports

Day Three :

§ (Marketing study cont’d)

§ Estimation of demand for a new product

§ Estimation of demand changes caused by population changes

§ Estimation of demand changes caused by income changes

§ Estimation of demand changes caused by price changes

§ Estimation of demand changes caused by advertising changes (Case study applied)

§ (Technical/Engineering study)

§ Natural environment

§ Technical knowhow selection scheme

§ Project flow chart and process mapping

§ Final output specifications

§ Equipments and accessories costing centre

§ Manpower costing centre

§ Material costing centre

§ Utilities and consumables

§ Project life cycle

§ Location calculation scheme for every cost centre

§ Project time plan (implementation scheduling)

Day Four :

§ (Financial study)

§ Investment profitability analysis

§ Simple rate of return

§ Pay‐back period

§ Financial analysis

§ Net present value (NPV)

§ Internal rate of return (IRR)

§ Financial appraisal of project

Day Five :

§ Full detailed case study and exercise on cost estimation , financial projections , Breakeven <