Projects Appraisal

Potential Clients

Investors:
These may include investors in projects, real estates or special purpose vehicles

Financiers:
These may include direct financiers to the investors above.

Potential Beneficiaries

Client

Service Overview

CRA undertakes an appraisal of the viability of the prospective project. The assessment covers external factors and internal factors of the prospective project.

For the external assessment, this will include environmental scanning using models  such as PESTLE (Political, Economic,  Social, Technological, Legal and Environment) and due consideration of the sovereign risk.

For internal assessment, a meticulous review of the business and financial risk of the prospective project will be undertaken.

Business Risk: Evaluation of the strengths/weaknesses of the operations of the project  including market position, geographic diversification, sector strengths or weaknesses, market cyclicality and competitive dynamics. This approach allows projects to be compared with each other and relative strengths/weaknesses to be identified.

Financial Risk: Evaluation of the financial flexibility of the project including total sales and profitability measures, margins, growth expectations, liquidity, funding diversity and financial forecasts.

Models applied in the business risk assessment include:
Benchmarking
Core competencies
Porters Five Forces
The GE-McKinsey nine-box matrix
The BCG growth-share matrix

Core competencies

Financial Analysis
Credit Review
Audit Review
Forensic and Due Diligence Assessments
Communication Skills

Outputs

Report with Clear Recommendations