Overall objectives:

1 - Students are expected to acquire and develop key technical skills in project evaluation as well as investment decision making. The main criteria for risk assessment and types of financing will be presented.

Syllabus:

1 - Part I - INTRODUCTION
1.1 - Fundamental Concepts
1.2 - Strategy and Business Plans
2 - Part II - INVESTMENT TYPES AND CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION AND SELECTION OF INVESTMENTS
3 - Types of Investment and Phases of a Project
3.1 - Real and Financial Investments
3.2 - Classification of Investment Projects
3.3 - Phases of an Investment Project
4 - Invested Capital
5 - Investment Financial Flows
6 - Criteria for Evaluation and Selection of Investments
7 - Investment Rating Mutually Exclusive
8 - Social Analysis of Investment Projects
9 - Decisions in the Uncertainty Context
9.0 - Part III - RISK AND PROJECT FINANCING
9.1 - Uncertainty and Risk
9.2 - Incorporation of Risk in Investment Analysis
9.3 - Sensitivity Analysis
9.4 - Scenario Analysis
9.5 - Decision trees
9.6 - Simulation and Monte Carlo Method
10 - Project Financing
10.1 - Funding Sources
10.2 - Capital structure
10.3 - Methods of Interaction between the Decisions to Invest and to finance

Literature/Sources:

Esperança, J. e Matias, F. , 2010 , Finanças Empresariais , Texto Editora
Moreira, I, e outros , 2008 , Decisões de Investimento ? Análise Financeira de Projectos , Edições Sílabo
Mota, A. e outros , 2010 , Finanças Empresariais ? Teoria e Prática , Edições Sílabo
Ross, S. A. , Westerfield, R. W., Jaffe, J. , 2012 , Corporate finance , McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Brealey, R. A., Myers, S. C., Allen, F. , s. d. , Principles of corporate finance , McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Leite, E. et al. , 2017 , Decisões de Investimento , Ponteditora

Assesssment methods and criteria:

Classification Type: Quantitativa (0-20)

Evaluation Methodology:
The classes will be theoretical-practical. The teaching method will articulate academic moments in which will be presented and developed theoretical and conceptual aspects (and in which the main assessment techniques will be presented and discussed), with those which try to apply these concepts, theories and techniques will be applied through the resolution of problems and real cases. The assessment consists of two written exams that address the theoretical and practical issues of analysis of investment projects, with a 50% weighting, for each of these two moments of assessment. The assessment at the Time of Appeal will focus on the whole subject matter and will have a weighting of 100%.