Project Analysis : Tools & Techniques for Managing Risk & Uncertainty

Delegates will develop project management skills supported by financial analysis and cash flow management skills through formal and interactive learning methods. This training course includes individual exercises, team projects, applicable case studies and group discussions that will bring to life the skills acquired throughout the course. 

The material has been designed to enable delegates to apply all of the material with immediate effect back in the workplace. 

Additionally, this training course does not assume prior knowledge of the topics covered in the course. New concepts and tools are introduced gradually to enable delegates to progress from the fundamental to the advanced concepts of asset-based financial engineering.

At the end of this training course, you will learn to:

• Understand how to manage organization's investments in large capital-intensive projects
• Identify how to make and understand financial decisions and be able to present these back to the stakeholder community
• Identify how to manage the cash flow of projects and manage and appraise the financial risk mitigation strategies
• Understand proper cash-flow and sensitivity analyses to forecast and control potential future conditions
• Define and manage project success factors and maximize the return on the capital invested in projects
• Understand how to define financial strategies and incorporate these into project risk mitigation strategies

This Project Analysis training course is designed for programme and project management professionals, project leaders, project engineers, cost engineers, and other senior project control and business services professionals who are responsible for or involved in evaluating projects and managing cash flow throughout the duration of project delivery.

Organisational Impact

Application of sound project appraisal and quantification techniques will enable the organisation to:

• Forecast and control potential future conditions that might jeopardise the chances of project success
• Maximizing the organisation's return on capital invested in projects
• Understand how to forecast the future based on existing information

Personal Impact

In attending this training course, delegates can expect to gain the following benefits:

• Enhance their understanding of the time value of money, as well as learn how to use the basic tools of financial engineering such as Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), and annual worth calculations
• Learn how to evaluate and compare various alternative solutions over differing time horizons
• Detailed explanations of the tools and techniques to determine and continuously monitor project feasibility, will enable participants to select projects with the best capital investment potential
• Learn how to identify, plan, structure and manage risks to the overall delivery of projects – A powerful forecasting and control element leading to project success