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.