Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Evaluate project success utilising real-life case studies focused on the evaluation of risk.
- Analyse project risks, develop risk mitigation strategies, and organise adequate financing for projects.
- Analyse the ethical consequences associated with project risk-taking and the ways in which these can be monitored.
- Communicate the findings from an analysis of problems, task allocations, feasibility, scenario modelling and project budgeting.
Topics covered
- An introduction to project finance and the nature of project risk
- Causes of contemporary risk and project life cycle
- Project selection and feasibility study
- Planning for the mitigation and management of project risk
- Capital budgeting and methods
- Modelling project risk
- Project financing and managing project cost
- Ethical decision making in projects
- Project monitoring and evaluation
- Analysing failed projects
