CPD – Project Finance Workshop

The Project Finance workshop is ideal for those finance professionals who desire to apply the knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques learnt in the CMA program to project financing and investment appraisal activities. Essentially, Project finance is the financing of long-term infrastructure, industrial projects and public services using a non-recourse or limited recourse financial structure. Project finance is especially attractive to the private sector because companies can fund major projects off-balance sheet. The main feature of project finance is the whole amount may or may not be not invested upfront.  A Project Finance Analyst is useful in the case of large projects related to industrial, construction, oil refinery or renewable energy projects.

The course also counts as 8 CPD hours for CMAs.  

Program Schedule:

9.00 – 10.15am: Project Investment Evaluation

• Long-Term Projects
• Capital Budgeting Techniques
• Uncertainties and Probabilities
• Investment Evaluation and Project Objectives
• Profitability and Market Share Objectives
• Follow-up of Capital Budgeting Decisions

10.15am - 10.30am            Tea/Coffee Break

10.30am - 11.00am             Case Study & Discussion: Trump’s Department Store

11.00am – 11.45am           Project Financing and Evaluation

• Optimal Capital Structures
• Cost of Capital: An Overview
• Weighted Average Cost of Capital
• The Impact of Risk on Cost of Capital and Performance
• Using the CAPM in Project Management

11.45pm - 1.00pm              Project Risk Management

• Project Risk – Definitions
• The Importance of Project Risk Management
• Project Risk Management Processes
• Planning Risk Management
• Identifying Risks
• Risk Register
• Performing Qualitative Risk Analysis
• Performing Quantitative Risk Analysis
• Planning Risk Responses
• Controlling Risks

1.00pm - 2.00pm Lunch & Prayer

2.00pm – 3.15pm                Political & Exchange Risk in Project Management

• International Investments
• International Project Risk Management
• Operational Profitability in Risk Analysis
• Proactive Political Strategies
• Exchange Risk Exposure

3.15pm – 3.30pm                Tea/Coffee Break

3.30pm-5.00pm                  Case Study & Discussion: The iProject Corporation

5.00pm                                  End of workshop