This seminar presumes knowledge of financial accounting (at least 1 semester or equivalent) and Microsoft Excel. Participants without this background should complete Wall Street Prep's online Accounting and Excel Crash Courses before the seminar.

Course Goals and Overview: 

This course provides a conceptual overview of project finance and is intended to provide students with the basic understanding of the financial structure of the Project Finance Model Case Study.

• What is project finance
• Difference between project finance and corporate finance
• Project finance structure
• Project finance risks and risk changes over time
• Constraints to project finance investment
• Sources of project finance
• Project revenues and costs
• Debt financing instruments and characteristics
  
• Equity financing and characteristics
  
• Introduction to key project finance metrics
• Types of project documentation