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

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:

• 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

Day Three:

• 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 know how 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/sensitivity and IRR calculation.
  
• The use of Computer Model for Feasibility Analysis and Reporting (COMFAR), a feasibility studies’ program developed by the UNIDO
  

• This course is targeted for Governmental employees.
• Managers and head of departments.
• Financial, operations and planning specialists.
• Business owners and/ or new investors.