Course Details
Investments
Academic Year 2025/26
NVA068 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-ARS / ARA Summer Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Theoretical aspects of investment, economic policy
- 2. Cycle and phases of investment plan
- 3. Feasibility study
- 4. Total project costs (investment costs, working capital)
- 5. Financing of investment projects (internal and external resources)
- 6. Capacity, production inputs. Returns and production costs.
- 7. Income statement, balance sheet, CF statement
- 8. Economic efficiency of investment ratios (NPV, IRR, PB)
- 9. Risk and uncertainty analysis (profit, sensitivity and probability analysis)
- 10. Project evaluation with risk and uncertainty – probability and decision trees
- 11. Project evaluation with risk and uncertainty – decision matrix, decision rules
- 12. Inflation, nominal and real values
- 13. Portfolio theory
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Assessment of the cost-effectiveness of projects.
- 2. SWOT analysis - Case Study.
- 3. Analysis of problems and solutions.
- 4. Logical Framework - Case study. Determination of connection hypotheses. Entering the project.
- 5. Individual project work - Logical Framework.
- 6. Presentation of results.
- 7. Cost methods of project evaluation - Case Study.
- 8. CBA analysis. Cost-effectiveness of the project. Individual work.
- 9. CBA analysis. The economic efficiency of the project. Individual work.
- 10. – 11. CBA analysis. The sensitivity analysis. Individual work.
- 12. Presentation of results.
- 13. Credit.