1. Understanding feasibility studies and market analysis.
2. Evaluating social and national profitability.
3. Conducting a comprehensive marketing study.
4. Performing a thorough technical analysis.
5. Conducting a financial study and analyzing project profitability.
6. Utilizing the Computer Model for Feasibility Analysis and Reporting (COMFAR), a UNIDO-developed program for conducting feasibility studies.

Course Objectives:

This package is designed to enable trainees to:

Achieve a wise investment decision from the individual and social perspectives.
Select investment projects with the highest possible net profit.
Help economic policymakers in developing countries to evaluate available investment opportunities.
Obtain appropriate licenses and approvals.
Applying all above with COMFAR III Software

Who Should Attend?

This course is targeted at Governmental employees.
Managers and heads of departments.
Financial, operations, and planning specialists.
Business owners and/ or new investors.

Course Outlines:

Introduction to feasibility studies
Applicable rules and regulation
Areas of feasibility studies
Difference between pre‐feasibility and detailed studies
Social, cultural, religious and location study
(Marketing study)
Segmenting the market
Studying the potential market and the potential demand

Potential demand indicators
Estimation of the demand gap
Estimation of the implicit demand gap
Other indicators of potential market
Projection of market demand
Simple linear regression
Quadratic linear regression

Estimation of demand for a new product
Estimation of demand changes caused by population changes
Estimation of demand changes caused by income changes
Estimation of demand changes caused by price changes
Estimation of demand changes caused by advertising changes
(Case study applied)
(Technical/Engineering study)
Natural environment
Technical know how selection scheme
Project flow chart and process mapping
Final output specifications
Equipment’s and accessories costing center
Manpower costing center
Material costing center
Utilities and consumables
Project life cycle
Location calculation scheme for every cost center
Project time plan (implementation scheduling)

(Financial study)

Investment profitability analysis
Simple rate of return
Pay‐back period
Financial analysis
Net present value (NPV)
Internal rate of return (IRR)
Financial appraisal of the project

Full detailed case study and exercise on cost estimation, financial projections, Breakeven/sensitivity, and IRR calculation.
The use of Computer Model for Feasibility Analysis and Reporting (COMFAR), a feasibility studies’ program developed by the UNIDO

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