Evaluating Business Project Feasibility

This assignment delves into the crucial aspect of evaluating the feasibility of various business projects. It emphasizes the importance of understanding corporate financial management strategies, including working capital management, financial risk mitigation, and the impact of market competition. Students are tasked with critically analyzing these factors to assess the viability and potential success of proposed business ventures.

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Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Sensitivity analysis......................................................................................................................................3
Scenario Analysis........................................................................................................................................4
Bren Even Analysis.....................................................................................................................................7
Simulation Analysis....................................................................................................................................8
Recommendation and conclusion................................................................................................................8
References.................................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
When operating a business, making correct decisions can result in success, on the other hand,
making wrong attempts and things in business can lead to failure. With various decisions to
make, it is very important to put every aspect of the business into consideration for an effective
business outcome. In order to help the individuals in making effective efforts for such measures,
the leaders of the organization need to go through a very intricate and thoughtful decision-
making process (Ammann, Oesch & Schmid, 2013).
As per Andreou, Louca & Panayides, there are various methods and techniques which help the
organization in making a good and effective decision-making. These tools and techniques may
tend to encompass around the similar major principles of reasoning out the decisions which are
required to be made, researching and considering the choices and making a review of the
decision after it is been (Andreou, Louca & Panayides, 2014). Capital budgeting can be
considered as planning that is for the long-term basis that is meant for the commitment of various
funds for the fixed assets. In order to evaluate the long-term planning, the managers in the
finance department make us if the following techniques such as net terminal value and internal
rate of return. The parameter of the assumptions and values of any kind of model that are used
for the decision-making of an organization are subjected to error and change (Aribi & Arun,
2015).
Sensitivity analysis
As per Arnold, Sensitivity analysis can be broadly defined as the investigation of such potential
changes or alterations that occur in the organization. It also encompasses the impacts of such
changes and errors on the outcomes that are to be drawn. Sensitivity analysis can be easily
implemented by the companies in the case of their decision-making process. It is very easy to
communicate even. It is the most useful and widely used technique that is available to the
modelers who support the decision makers in the companies (Arnold, 2013). It is to be noted
that the stability and the sensitivity analysis has to be an integral part of the decision-making and
resolution strategy. There is a broad range of application to which the sensitivity analysis is
applied (Aussenegg, Goetz & Jelic, 2015).

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Figure 1: Sensitivity Analysis
The economic and financial benefit of cost analysis on the projects that are in the investment
kind of nature of the companies is basically base done the quantifiable variables forecast.
Sensitivity analysis concentrates on the analysis of the implications of the changes in the major
variables in the IRR and NPV of the projects which involve many instances of decision making.
It is observed that a project or decision making of the company having a higher variability is
high in risk. This happens as the investors need a higher rate of return in the times when the
companies to undertake projects that are high in risks, such companies will have greater capital
cost (Baños-Caballero, García-Teruel & Martínez-Solano, 2014).
Scenario Analysis
According to Chen, Han & Zeng, The sensitivity and scenario analysis of any business venture
can be obtained by conducting the analysis of the internal rate of return along with the standard
deviation as an outcome of the volatility of the cash flows that are expected. The economic and
financial benefits of the cost analysis of the investment projects are determined by the forecast of
the variables that are quantifiable (Chen, Han & Zeng, 2015). The values of such variables are
assumed on the basis of the most predictable forecasts that encompass a longer time period. The

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value of such variables for the most likely values may vary from the values that are forecasted
considerably on the basis of the developments in the future. It is useful to consider the outcomes
of the probable changes in the major variables on the viability including the financial internal
rate of return and the economic rate of return. This can be done using the sensitivity analysis
(Deakin, 2017).
Figure 2: Scenarios Analysis
The variability of the decision making in the projects in the companies is evaluated on the basis
of the comparison of the internal rate of return (IRR) which includes EIRR and FIRR to the
economic or financial opportunity capital cost. The decision making in the project, alternatively
is considered to be viable when the NPV which is the Net Present Value is positive. By using the
selected OFCC or EOCC as the rate of discount, sensitivity analysis concentrates on the analysis
of the implications of the alterations in the major variables in the IRR or NPV of the decision
making in the projects undertaken by the companies (Jain, 2017).
A review of the evaluation and literature of reports presents a very commonly found facts that
the assessments of these values does not facilitate sufficient information for a decision that is

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valid, especially for the investment projects in the public sector domain in the environments that
are highly uncertain in nature like in the developing countries. Analysis of the risks cannot be
considered as a substitute of the conventional methodology for the investments appraisal,
however, a technique for the improvements of the results (Kovářík & Sarga, 2014). The
sensitivity analysis of the investment projects by the companies and their evaluation is embedded
in a constantly altering environment which exerts impacts on the predictions and values of the
analysis of the risks. The objective of such analysis is the identification of such the variables that
sensitively react external changes at a greater rate, which ultimately results in changes in NPV
and IRT. The external changes have implications on specific input values such as criteria values
like NPV and IRR of the evaluation of the projects (Le & Ngo, 2016).
NPV calculations are sensitive to the influence of the external environment like interest rates,
inflation, currency exchange rates and economic growth. In order to evaluate NPV of any
business project, the managers in the companies are basically faced with a single rate of discount
and multiple periods of cash flows. According to Le & Ngo, it can be stated that decisions are
determined by the cash flows and the financing costs are not considered in the analysis of the
cash flows. Hence, financing costs are included in the decision making process of the companies
through the needed return rate (Le & Ngo, 2016).
On the other hand, the net present value which is the NPV is the difference between the current
value of the cash inflows and the current value of the cash outflows. If through the scenario
analysis, the probability of the distribution of all the variables is analyzed. Scenario analysis
begins with the construction of the fundamental scenario of the case. Other scenarios are
considered from there which are considered as “best and worst case scenario” (Liu, 2014).

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Source: (Liu & Huang, 2016)
Through the scenario analysis, probabilities are assigned to various scenarios and calculated in
order to converge them at a value that is expected.
Bren Even Analysis
Break even analysis will frequently convert the crucial variable of business projects if a company
which is the volume of sales. If any company thinks of designing and launching a new product
or service, break even analyses assist in predicting how well it can be sold (Ojo, 2016). Break
even analysis is the most commonly and widely used tool that can be used for analyzing the
association between the profitability and volume of sales. Forecasting risk is probable regarding
the aspect of what will break or make the expansion of any business projects to any company in
terms of the volume of the sales.
On the basis of the estimated flow of cash, the expansion in the business of any company has a
positive effect on NPV. In order to have a financial break even, the level of sales has to be zero.
For simulation analysis, a computer is used to generate thousands of probable scenarios in the
case of expansion of the business of a company (Ortas, Gallego‐Alvarez & Álvarez Etxeberria,
2015). The distribution of probability is assigned to every combination of the variables in order
to create a complete range of the potential results. Simulation can be considered as the imitation
of the conduction of a system or process which is real in the world.

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Simulation Analysis
The simulation analysis includes the behavior of the system which is generated by the system’s
artificial history through the utilization of random numbers. Companies make use of the
simulation analysis for building the models of how varying the courses of external variable and
courses of action may influence the building models, finances which allow the companies for
reacting quickly with a prepared pan (Wang & Sarkis, 2013). Developing and initiating the
forecast of the business plan would include the forecasted statement of income, both the variable
and fixed costs that have significant effect on the NPV and IRR. Simulation analysis assist in the
changing the income of the company as a whole as the basis of the volume of sales. Alterations
in the expenses that are based on the potential alterations to both the variable and fixed costs
affect the IRR and NPV.
Simulation analysis projects the alterations to the expenses and revenues without considering the
possible cause to them. It states the impact to the IRR and NPV when the variables of expense
and income are put into adjustments. This helps the business organization in their decision
making process of the organization as it maintains the viability of the company in order to keep
the business open for the entire duration of the business operation (Ortas, Gallego‐Alvarez &
Álvarez Etxeberria, 2015).
Recommendation and conclusion
One of the most crucial factors which affect the investment project of a company is the internal
rate of return that it should be higher than the rate of return that is acceptable to the actual rate of
interest of long-term available loan in the market. Hence, in order to justify the plan of the
investment projects of the companies, some individuals try to implement different methods and
present the internal rate of return that is higher than the actual one. Thus, they devise many
unrealistic numbers and raise or reduce some of the numbers that alter the internal rate of return,
is the increase in the company’s sales that are presented in various cases to present the
justification of the project.
The next aspect that has a significant effect on most of the investment projects of companies is
the minimization of the schedule of the plan of the investment projects of the business that by
altering it and unrealistically presenting it, the internal rate of return alters. However, the issues

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that are considered regarding the actual time of the investment project of the business
organizations that have the potential to make them unjustified. Another factor that has the
significant role in the success of the business projects of the companies is the NPV which when
positive, it will present that the investment projects of the business organizations are justified. In
accordance with the research analysis and study that are conducted, the factors that are effective
in the rise of the NPV, are the decrease of the rate of discount and in certain cases increase in the
company’s sales.
This also encompasses the presentation of the business plan is justified, some companies reduce
the rate of discount in a very unrealistically manner or make a hike in the sales of the companies
to present the Net Profit Value to be high. In order to prevent these types of cases, the
information in regards to the investment projects of the business organizations must be very
intricately examined and assessed in a careful manner. The sensitivity analysis needs to be
examined from various perspectives in accordance with the reality in an exact manner.
The revenues of the investments project have to be regulated along with being considered as its
decrease or increase has significant implications on the justification of the investment projects of
the companies. One of the key factors that are to be kept into consideration is the schedule of
time. If the time of operation of the business projects decreases, it can raise the justification of to
the business project and vice versa. Hence, exact time schedule of any business projects is very
crucial. The exchange type and the cost of investments in the business operations are very
significant aspects that are to be considered in regards to the overall sales of the company. These
aspects, however, relates to the effectiveness of the fluctuations of the rate of exchange on the
feasibility of the business projects.

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