Cost Engineering and Project evaluation

Code:

EMG4204

Acronym:

ECAP

Instance: 2006/2007 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Mining Engineering Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Mining and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LEMG	15	Plano Oficial EMG a partir de 2003	4	3	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

•To esteem the basic elements of economic assessment: investments, costs and markets
•To make economic forecast of different nature projects: producers of services, generators of revenues, marginal analysis, comparisons between leasing and acquisition in more and more complex contexts.

Program

Module 1 - Decision Theory:
Chapter I: Introduction to the Discount Theory.
Chapter II: Methods of Decision for Investments Producers of Services.
Chapter III: Investments Generators of Revenues
Chapter IV: Costs of Production.
Chapter V: Sensibility Analysis and Risk.
Chapter VI: Amortization
Chapter VII: Cash-Flow, Discounted Cash-Flow and Internal Rate of Return.
Chapter VIII: Evaluation After Taxes.
Chapter IX: Substitution Analysis .
Chapter X: Investments with Financing.
Module 2 – Project Theory:
Chapter I: Development of Mining Project.
Chapter II: Basic Elements of Economics’ Evaluation.
Chapter III: Esteem.
Chapter IV: Sensibility Analysis.
Chapter V: Mining Projects Evaluation.
Chapter VI: Market Analysis.

Main Bibliography

Fiúza, António, 1994,

Complementary Bibliography

Araújo, António, 1999,

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical exhibition;
Cases studies;
Resolution of problems.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial
Quizzes	Exame	8,00
	Total:	-	0,00