Creation and Assessment of Entrepreneurial Projects
1
2015-2016
02021142
Management
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
Introduction to Management, Financial Accounting, Financial Analysis, and Corporate Finance
Teaching Methods
Teaching in the classroom:
theoretical-practical, with special focus on monitoring of a business plan that students have to elaborate. There is strong teacher-student and student-student interaction in order to replicate the environment of a dynamic business environment.
Outside the classroom:
In addition to the classroom, there is a schedule of tutorial hours in which students can consult the teacher to ask questions or seek guidance for the preparation of the business plan
Learning Outcomes
LO1. Acquire an integrated view of the development process, stages of analysis and control of real-world investment projects
LO2. Outline and avoid some of the most common mistakes in analysis and evaluation of projects, advocating the advantages of adopting formal methodologies.
LO3. Enable future managers and economists to detect investment opportunities, assessing their viability and their implementation under uncertainty.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1. Scope of investment analysis: definition and typology of investments.
2. Notion of time value of money and profitability criteria.
3. Fundamentals of Corporate Finance.
4. Financial functions using Excel.
5. Selecting Investments between investment alternatives under specific circumstances.
6. Interaction between investment and financing decisions. Adjusted Net Present Value.
7. Cost of Capital. Inflation and tax impacts.
8. Analysis of Risk and Uncertainty. Strategic investments and real options.
9. Investment business plan.
10. Evaluation in the context of public policy: economic and social analysis and current incentive systems
Head Lecturer(s)
Patrícia Carla Gama Pinto Pereira da Silva de Vasconcelos Correia
Assessment Methods
evaluation
Individual assignement: : 35.0%
Group assignement: 65.0%
Bibliography
- BREALEY, Richard A. ; MEYERS, Stewart C. ; ALLEN, Franklin - Príncipios de finanças empresariais. 8ª ed.. Madrid : McGraw-Hill Interamericana de España, 2007. [BP 658.15 BRE]
- DAMODARAN, Aswath — Corporate finance: theory and practice. New York : John Wiley & Sons, 1997. [BP 658.15 DAM]
- INTRODUÇÃO à gestão de organizações. Dir. e coord. João Lisboa [et al.]. 3ª ed. Porto : Vida Económica, 2011. [ed. de 2007: BP 658 INT]
- MANUAL de gestão financeira empresarial. António Martins [et al.]. Coimbra : Coimbra Editora, 2009. [BP 658.15 MAN