1- Introduction to the financial analysis of investment projects The first video of this module provides an introduction to the activity of resource allocation. It shows very complete study of the concepts and steps involved in financial analysis.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

2- Analyzing the investment costs This video provides a thorough overview of every aspect of investment costs. It introduces the idea of costs, explains fixed assets, pre-production expenditures and contingencies.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

3- The financial coverage 1st part: an overview of the sources of finance This set of 3 videos present the various sources of financing, explaining the different types and the calculations necessary to evaluate the right choice for each case.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

4- The financial coverage 2nd part: debt and equity financing This set of 3 videos present the various sources of financing, explaining the different types and the calculations necessary to evaluate the right choice for each case.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

5- The financial coverage 3rd part: cost of capital This set of 3 videos present the various sources of financing, explaining the different types and the calculations necessary to evaluate the right choice for each case.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

6- The financial performance measurement 1°part: an overview of the financial stements This video provides a first overview of the importance of financial statements, describing the It describes the linkages between assets, liabilities revenues and costs for a project.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

7- The financial performance measurement 2°part: static indicators This video introduces indicators used to financially analyse a project at a specific moment time. It refers to rate of return, financial ratios and risk-related indicators.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

8- The financial performance measurement 3°part: introduction to dynamics indicators Dynamic indicators refer to the entire life span of an investment project, considering different types of dynamic indicators to a project.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

9- The financial performance measurement 4°part: the discounting process This video presents how the time value is applied to operations, making reference to compounding and discounting process and the present value of a series of payments.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

10- The financial performance measurement 5°part: time value and operations cash flows This video presents the time value in borrowing and investment, making special reference to the time value and the characteristics of operations in cash flow.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

11- The financial performance measurement 6°part: dynamic payback and net present value This video approaches types of dynamic indicators to explain dynamic payback and net present value.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

12- The financial performance measurement 7°part: IRR and NPVR This video focuses on two very important financial tools used to analyse any investment project, the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and the Net Present Value Ratio (NPVR).
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

13- The financial performance measurement 8°part: criteria vs.indicators Indicators are very important to assess an investment project. However, this video shows that those indicators should only be used to perform any decisions when compared with the right criteria. Reference is made to dynamic criteria and its relation with inflation.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

14- The risk analysis 1° part Investors do not like risks. In order to mitigate and control risks in the project, various tools to quantify and isolate the risk factors, both from a qualitative and quantitative point of view, are utilized.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

15- The risk analysis 2° part Investors do not like risks. In order to mitigate and control risks in the project, various tools to quantify and isolate the risk factors, both from a qualitative and quantitative point of view, are utilized.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

16- The Economic analysis: general considerations Reference is now made to the wider evaluation of the impact of projects on the economy and society as a whole.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

17- The Economic analysis: structure With the understanding of economic analysis, this video delves deeper into the fields of its application, the concept behind and methods of economic analysis.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

18- Economic pricing 1° part Markets usually do not reflect the true economic value of resources. Therefore, there is a need to move from market to economic values. This set of 3 videos present an overview of how to assess and quantify the economic value of products.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

19- Economic pricing 2° part Markets usually do not reflect the true economic value of resources. Therefore, there is a need to move from market to economic values. This set of 3 videos present an overview of how to assess and quantify the economic value of products.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

20- Economic pricing 3° part Markets usually do not reflect the true economic value of resources. Therefore, there is a need to move from market to economic values. This set of 3 videos present an overview of how to assess and quantify the economic value of products.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

21- Methods of economic anlysis: the economic cost-benefit analysis 1° part This analysis assists in making decisions on resource allocation through the selection of those projects which mostly fit to initial goals.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

22- Methods of economic anlysis: the economic cost-benefit analysis 2° part This analysis assists in making decisions on resource allocation through the selection of those projects which mostly fit to initial goals.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

23- Methods of economic anlysis: the value added 1° part Value added is one of the methods used to assess the impact of a project on the economy as a whole.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

24- Methods of economic anlysis: the value added 2° part Value added is one of the methods used to assess the impact of a project on the economy as a whole.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani

25- Methods of economic anlysis: other issues The last video of the module will approach the remaining issues regarding investment analysis, focusing on supplementary indicators and the appraisal of externalities with focus on “non-market” externalities.
Lecturer: Raffaele Oriani