MBA Program
Finance & Banking
Course: Project Appraisal & Management
Course Teacher: Rowshan Jahan Ferdous (ma’am); Assistant Professor; Eden Mohila College
Questions & Necessary Topics:
Chapter: 01
The Project Concept
1. What is project?
2. What is project appraisal?
3. Discuss the purpose of project appraisal.
4. Aspect of project appraisal
5. What is project management?
6. Discuss the key aspects of project management.
7. Why is project management important? Discuss.
8. What is project cycle? / Discuss the project cycle.
9. What is project management life cycle? Discuss the importance of project management life
cycle.
10. Human aspect of project management
11. What is project risk? Analysis of project risk
12. What are the five M’s of project management?
13. What are the five C’s of project management?
14. What are the knowledge areas of project management?
15. What are the basic principles of project management?
Chapter: 02
Generation & Screening of Project Ideas
1. What is meant by idea generation? / What is generation of ideas?
2. Why is idea generation important?
3. What is corporate appraisal? Discuss its objectives.
4. What are the important aspects studied in monitoring the key sectors of business environment?
5. What is life cycle approach? What are the stages of life cycle approach?
6. Briefly explain the techniques and methods of idea generation.
7. Stimulating the flow of idea
8. What are the important aspects to be considered in corporate appraisal?
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9. What is preliminary screening? Discuss the aspects of preliminary screening.
10. What can a firm do to stimulate the flow of project ideas?
11. Describe briefly the aspects of business environment that need to be monitored.
12. What key issue would you examine in a preliminary screening exercise?
Chapter: 03
Project Analysis
1. What is market analysis?
2. What is project analysis?
3. What is demand analysis?
4. Discuss the aspects of demand analysis.
5. Mention the benefits of demand analysis.
6. What is the main objective of demand analysis?
7. What are the major components of demand analysis?
8. How to write demand analysis?
9. Discuss the stress of market and demand analysis
10. Situation analysis and specification of objective
11. Collection of secondary information
12. What is market survey?
13. What are the key aspects of market survey?
14. What are the
15. Conduct of market survey
16. Demand forecasting
17. Characteristics of market
18. What is market planning? Discuss the key components of market planning.
19. Discuss the importance of market planning.
20. What are the characteristics of a market?
21. What are the four C’s of market analysis?
22. What are the seven steps in conducting market analysis?
23. What is demand analysis?
24. Discuss the aspects of demand analysis.
25. Discuss the benefits of demand analysis.
26. What is the main objective of demand analysis?
27. What are the six major components of demand analysis?
28. How to write demand analysis? What are the steps?
29. What is market survey?
30. Discuss the key aspects of market survey.
31. What are the benefits of using market survey?
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32. What is demand forecasting?
33. Discuss the key aspects of demand forecasting.
34. What are the types of market survey?
35. State the differences between census survey and sample survey.
36. What are the steps in sample survey?
37. Discuss the importance of demand forecasting.
Chapter: 04
Technical Analysis
1. What is technical analysis?
2. State the several factors that have bearing on the capacity decision.
3. Discuss the factors by which the choice of location can be influenced.
4. What is the procedure to determine the kinds of equipment and machinery required for a
manufacturing industry?
5. What aspects are considered in technical analysis?
6. What factors have a bearing on choice of technology?
7. List the key issues to be covered in a technical collaboration arrangement.
8. What are the broad types of materials and inputs? What questions would you raise in assessing
whether the material and input requirements of the project would be reasonably met?
9. How would you evaluate the appropriateness of a technology?
10. What factors have a bearing on the plant capacity?
11. How would you determine the kinds of machinery and equipments required for a
manufacturing industry?
12. Describe the important charts and layout drawings.
13. What information is required for preparing the project implementation schedule?
14. What is a work schedule? What purpose does it serve?
15. Discuss the importance of considering alternative ways of transforming an idea into a concrete
project?
Chapter: 05
Financial Analysis
{Math Problems both from English & Bangla Book}
1. Cost of Project.
2. Means of finance.
3. Estimates of Sales and Production.
4. Cost of Production.
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5. Working capital requirements and its Financing.
6. Profitability projections.
7. Projected cash flow statement.
8. Projected balance sheet.
9. Break Even Point.
Chapter: 06
Appraisal Criteria
1. Cost of project.
2. Means of finance.
3. Estimate sales and production
4. Cost of production
5. Working capital requirements and its financing
6. Profitability projection
7. Methods of BEP
8. Projected cash flow statement.
9. Projected balance sheet
Chapter: 07
Social Cost Benefit Anaysis
1. Define cost benefit analysis. Discuss its steps.
2. Principles of cost benefit analysis.
3. Discuss UNIDO approach.
4. Stages of project appraisal as per the UNIDO approach.
5. Discuss shadow pricing.
6. Sources of shadow price.
7. Specific resources of shadow pricing.
8. What is externalities?
9. Advantages and disadvantages of externalities.
10. LM Approach
11. Characteristics of LM approach
12. Similarities between UNIDO approach and LM approach
13. Differences between UNIDO and LM approach
14. Social cost benefit by the organization for economic co-operation and development (OECD)
15. What is cost benefit analysis?
16. Steps of cost benefit analysis.
17. Principles of cost benefit analysis.
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18. Objectives of cost benefit analysis.
19. What is social cost benefit analysis?
20. Steps of social cost benefit analysis.
21. Differences between social cost benefit analysis & financial analysis.
22. Approaches or methods of social cost benefit analysis.
Chapter: 08
Project Management
1. Forms of project organization.
2. What is Project Planning?
3. Functions of project planning.
4. Area of project planning.
5. Necessity of project planning.
6. Elements of project planning.
7. Steps of project planning.
8. Objectives and policies of the project.
9. Life cycle of a project.
10. Why do project plans fail?
11. Limitations of the project plan process in Bangladesh.
12. Way to solve the obstacles of the project plan in Bangladesh.
13. What is Project controlling?
14. Human aspects of project management.
15. Pre requisites of successful project implementation.
16. What is Project implementation?
17. Project implementation stage.
18. Concept of schedule.
19. Project schedule methods.
20. What is the Gantt chart?
21. uses the Gantt chart.
22. Advantages and disadvantages of the gantt chart.
23. Network technique.
24. Concept of network technique.
25. Advantages and disadvantages of network technique.
26. Types of network techniques.
27. What is PERT?
28. What is CPM?
29. Steps of PERT.
30. Benefits of PERT.
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31. Limitations of PERT.
32. The purpose of PERT and CPM.
33. Advantage of PERT & CPM.
34. Definitions used in PERT & CPM.
35. To start and finish activities at PERT and CPM.
Chapter: 09
Project Review
* Initial review.
* Performance evaluation.
Compiled by-
CR Jareen Binte Asad
BBA Session: 2019-2020
MBA Session: 2023-2024
Eden Mohila College
