Course Details

Economy of Investments

Academic Year 2025/26

NVB033 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-SIM Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Investment and economic growth, types of investment opportunities.
  • 2. Theoretical assumptions for assessing the economic efficiency of investments, time value of money.
  • 3. Technical and Economic Study of the Investment Project - feasibility study.
  • 4. Specification of revenues and costs in each life cycle of a construction project.
  • 5. Financing of construction investment projects, resources and costs.
  • 6.-7. Creation of documents for economic evaluation of investment projects, determination of cash flows
  • 8.-9. Economic analysis of investment projects - calculations of NPV, IRR, LCC and their interpretation.
  • 10. Analysis of profitability, critical cost point, sensitivity and probability analysis.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic ratios for evaluation of the economic efficiency of investment.
  • 2. Calculation of depriciation.
  • 3. Analysis of uncertainties – profitability, sensitivity and probability analysis.
  • 4. Assignment of project – production of wooden windows.
  • 5. Continuation of project – resources of business plan financing.
  • 6. Continuation of project – profit and loss statement, cash flow statement.
  • 7. Optimization of financial resources – credit, leasing, bonds.
  • 8. Continuation of optimization of financial resources.
  • 9. Credit test.
  • 10. Credit.