Use CMA capital budgeting tools to build and challenge investment cases that hold up at steering committees and on the exam.
📐 Investment structure: Turn vague ideas into structured capital projects with clear cash flows and assumptions.
🗣️ Credible challenge: Ask better questions and provide grounded recommendations in investment and capex reviews.
🏦 Better capital allocation: Support investment decisions that align with strategy and deliver sustainable value.
Project and capex controllers structuring business cases, modeling project cash flows and challenging investment proposals.
FP&A managers, finance managers and CMA candidates advising leadership on competing capital investment options.
Knowledge: Basic time value of money, cost of capital and project cash flow concepts.
Tools: Spreadsheet skills and CMA approved calculator capable of NPV and IRR computations.
Structure incremental project cash flows, including tax effects and working capital changes.
Apply NPV, IRR, payback and related capital budgeting methods to exam style projects.
Evaluate uncertainty using sensitivity and simple scenario analysis.
Link capital investment decisions to strategic and operational objectives for clear recommendations.
Eligibility: currently not eligible
Watch time: about 1.5 hours
Total learning: about 3 hours
Estimated credits: 2.0