Cost Benefit Analysis

Instructor by : Bambang Kesit   OVERVIEW A cost benefit analysis is an invaluable tool for assessing the financial, social and economic impact of large-scale projects. While many organisations are used to the concept of CBA as a result of regulation or applications for funding, the finer details of realistic models and successful execution have often been missed. By attending this course you will learn all you need to know about cost-benefit analyses, including how to deal with risk and uncertainty and how to quantify and compare different types of information.  You will leave the course with the tools and skills to improve your organisation’s approach, methods and processes, ultimately leading to cost benefit-analyses that better reflect the likely outcomes.

DELEGATES AT THIS COURSE WILL GAIN:

• An understanding of the basic principles of cost-benefit analysis
• Insights into how to quantify costs and benefits
• Expertise in dealing with risk and uncertainty
• Hands-on practice at building a simple cost benefit model
• Knowledge of how to value non-market impacts

  OUTLINE MATERI 1. Introduction to cost-benefit analysis

• Aim of cost-benefit analysis
• Importance to policy-makers and link to Impact Assessment
• Importance to regulated utilities and infrastructure investment
• Ex ante and ex post cost-benefit analysis
• Guidance documents

2. Basic issues in cost-benefit analysis

• Defining the baseline
• Identifying costs and benefits
• Transfers and distributional impacts
• Using market prices to value impacts
• Taking account of inflation and relative price changes
• Discounting
• How to discount future impacts
• What discount rate to use

3. How to deal with risk and uncertainty 4. The importance of thinking about risk and uncertainty 5. Scenario and sensitivity analysis 6. Monte Carlo analysis

• Real options

7. Interactive break-out session: building a simple cost-benefit model

• In this session, delegates will break into smaller groups to work on an interactive case study involving the building of a simple cost benefit model for an infrastructure investment project.

8. In more detail: how to quantify costs and benefits

• Challenges in quantifying costs and benefits
• Methods of collecting data and analysing impacts
• Stakeholder engagement
• Market research
• Behavioural experiments
• Statistical analysis
• Case studies
• Modelling

9. Assessing the additionality of impacts

• Adjusting for optimism bias

10.  How to value non-market impacts 11. Why non-market impacts are important 12. Techniques for valuing non-market impacts

• Using existing valuations
• Stated preference
• Revealed preference

13. Examples of how to value non-market impacts

• Time savings
• Carbon impacts
• Other environmental impacts (e.g. noise, amenity)
• Health impacts
• Safety impacts

14. Interactive break-out session: valuing carbon impacts

• Breaking into small groups, delegates will be given an interactive exercise relating to valuing the carbon impacts of a policy proposal

15. Breaking into small groups, delegates will be given an interactive exercise

• relating to valuing the carbon impacts of a policy proposal
• Brief summary of what has been learned during day
• Final opportunity to ask questions

  TRAINING METHOD Presentation Discussion Case Study Evaluation   FACILITIES Training Kit Handout Certificate Lunch + 2 X Coffee Break Souvenir Pick Up Participants