Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive guide to interpreting financial reports and assessing the profitability, solvency, and activities of ventures across industries and countries. Learners will develop key competencies in analyzing cashflow diagrams, using economic measures like Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Net Present Value (NPV), and making informed project investment decisions through sensitivity and incremental analysis. The course highlights the financial impact of engineering decisions and enhances communication skills with a financial perspective. Ideal for intermediate learners in engineering and project management, it equips leaners with financial evaluation skills for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) projects, boosting career prospects in project finance, engineering management, and investment analysis. The course utilizes financial tools to provide hands-on experience, preparing learners for the increasingly technology-driven landscape of financial decision-making.This course is credit-bearing (3 AU) and stackable to:
- Graduate Certificate in Construction Management (9 AU)
- FlexiMasters in Construction Management (15 AU)
- Master of Science in International Construction Management (30 AU)
Learners will receive their Statement of Accomplishment (for a grade of D and above) or Certificate of Participation for this course—dependent upon their assessment performance.
This course is part of the FlexiMasters in Construction Management.
Course Availability
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Date(s): 10 Aug 2026 to 02 Jan 2027
Venue: Nanyang Technological University
Registration Closing Date: 13 Jul 2026
At the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Read and interpret annual report of companies.
- Develop an opinion for the venture’s profitability, activities and solvency.
- Compare ventures across countries and industries.
- Identify how engineering decisions affect financial performance of venture.
- Improve their communications of engineering decisions with financial flare.
- Construct and update cashflow diagrams for project viability analysis.
- Convert cashflow diagrams into different equivalent profiles for monitoring.
- Use economic measures such as Internal Rate of Return, Net Present Value and Nuveen Municipal Value to develop an opinion.
- Recommend a project investment decision and conduct sensitivity analysis.
- Gain insight into the use of incremental analysis and when projects have cashflows with disbursements only.
- Apply the principles and concepts of economic and financial evaluation, risk assessment, and financial structuring of PPP and BOT projects to their own projects.
This course is designed for working professionals who wish to develop skills that can be used in the construction industry to aid in project management and other construction activities. Learners who have at least 5 years of relevant working experience or hold a Bachelor's Degree in any field from a recognised institution will have better grasp of the content.
Standard Course Fee: S$5500.14
| SSG Funding Support | BEFORE funding & GST | AFTER SSG funding (if eligible under various schemes) & 9% GST |
| Course Fee | Course Fee Payable | |
| Singapore Citizen (SC) and Permanent Resident (PR) (Up to 70% funding) | $5,046.00 | $1,650.04 |
| Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS) | $5,046.00 | $640.84 |
| Singapore Citizen aged ≥ 40 years old SkillsFuture Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy (MCES) (Up to 90% funding) | $5,046.00 | $640.84 |
- NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits for this course. Click here for more information.
- Learners can utilise their SkillsFuture Credits for this course.
- Singaporeans aged 40 years and above are able to use their SkillsFuture Credit (Mid-Career) top-up of $4,000 to offset the course fee after SSG funding.
- Construction Management (3 AU)
- Construction Technology (3 AU)
- International Construction & Marketing (3 AU)
- Information Technology in Construction (3 AU)
