Before a single riyal goes into a new venture, one question decides everything else: will this project actually generate more value than it consumes? Answering that honestly, not optimistically, is the entire point of a feasibility study, and it's where most investment decisions quietly succeed or fail long before construction or operations ever begin.

This training course by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy equips project managers, executives and investors to run that evaluation properly: applying project valuation methods such as net present value, internal rate of return and payback period, building technical and marketing feasibility studies side by side, and identifying, analyzing and managing the risks that could derail an otherwise sound investment. Participants leave able to defend, or reject, an investment decision with evidence, not intuition.

Target Audience:

• Project managers.
• Executives.
• Investors, entrepreneurs and capitalists.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain why feasibility studies matter and walk through their stages.
• Decide whether and how to implement a project based on feasibility study results and the investment approval process.
• Rationalize cost, exploit available production capacity and sustain labor productivity in line with a project's theoretical objectives.
• Judge whether to establish a business or investment project based on available opportunities and preliminary versus detailed feasibility studies.
• Prepare marketing and technical feasibility studies and translate them into a realistic picture of the project.

Module 1: Why Feasibility Studies Decide a Project's Fate

• The concept of investment and what makes an opportunity worth studying
• Studying investment opportunities before committing resources
• Overview of the feasibility study and why it precedes every serious investment

Module 2: Technical and Marketing Feasibility Side by Side

• Building a technical feasibility study
• Building a marketing feasibility study
• Bringing both together into a final evaluation

Module 3: Putting a Number on the Project: Valuation Methods

• Overview of project valuation and the factors that affect it
• Net present value of future cash flows
• Internal rate of return, return on maturity and payback period

Module 4: Special Valuation Cases and Regional Considerations

• How changes in financial status affect valuation assumptions
• Responsibility and impairment considerations
• Regional evaluation and special-case project interactions

Module 5: From Approval to Execution

• Moving from feasibility approval to project implementation
• The transactions stage and its distinguishing characteristics
• Keeping execution aligned with the original feasibility assumptions

Module 6: Understanding and Analyzing Project Risk

• Introduction to project risk management
• Identifying the sources of project risk
• Analyzing risk against relevant laws, principles and standards

Module 7: Managing Risk in Practice

• Building a risk management implementation strategy and plan
• Methods of risk assessment and the precautions they require
• Aligning risk assessment with institutional policies, timing, and field verification