1. |
Project elaboration phases (allowance 0/2) |
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a. |
Feasibility study |
b. |
Costs appraisal accuracy |
c. |
The usual procedure in an investment project proposal |
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2. |
Basic economic terms (allowance 0/2) |
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a. |
Incomes and expenses, revenues and costs, their differences |
b. |
Break-even point |
c. |
Choosing the appropriate production device considering production costs optimization |
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3. |
Fix and active capital (allowance 0/4) |
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a. |
Direct and indirect capital costs, their further division |
b. |
The basic diagram of a capital investment |
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4. |
Methods of capital costs estimation (allowance 0/2) |
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a. |
Fast methods |
b. |
Index methods |
c. |
Factor - based methods; methods based on one or more factors (Lang, Baumann, Woods) |
d. |
Method of functional entities |
e. |
Exponential method |
f. |
Differences in cost estimation in a grass root project; a project to be realized within "battery limit" and a project of existing production unit revamp |
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5. |
Fix costs estimation (allowance 0/2) |
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a. |
A particular example of fix costs estimation in a distillation unit production capacity increase; including a chemical engineering analysis |
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6. |
Active capital (allowance 0/2) |
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a. |
Active capital circulation |
b. |
Methods of active capital evaluation |
c. |
Splitting of production costs |
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7. |
Estimation of total capital investment costs (allowance 0/2) |
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a. |
Complex estimation of fix and active capital requirements for a methanol absorption process |
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8. |
Economic point of view in construction material selection (allowance 0/2) |
9. |
Depreciation (allowance 0/2) |
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a. |
Depreciation types |
b. |
Simple methods of investment project evaluation, simple pay back period |
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10. |
Time value of money (allowance 0/2) |
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a. |
Interest rate, ways of interest rate assignment |
b. |
Inflation rate and its impact on time value of money |
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11. |
Cash flow (allowance 0/2) |
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12. |
Modern methods of an investment project evaluation (allowance 0/2) |
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a. |
NPV |
b. |
NPVR |
c. |
IRR |
d. |
DCFRR |
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