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Description

Multi-Year Capital Investment Plan: Building, Costing and Steering

Connecting the coming years' investment projects to a verified funding capacity

  • 1 day — 7 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Intermediate
  • Up to 6 participants

Projects come up from business units without a common framework. Each department defends its own investment using its own assumptions, and decisions are taken in meetings without any consolidated view of funding. Schedule slippage is not anticipated, internally generated cash flow is overestimated and borrowing decisions are taken under pressure.

This one-day programme provides a structured method for building a multi-year investment plan. Participants learn to identify and rank projects, to cost their full lifecycle impact and operating effects, and then to build the multi-year funding schedule. They leave with a plan template and the indicators required to monitor its execution.

Learning objectives

  • Identify capital investment projects and rank them against explicit criteria
  • Cost the full lifecycle expense of an investment and its impact on operations
  • Build the multi-year funding plan and measure the balance achieved
  • Simulate the effect of schedule slippage on forecast cash position
  • Organise annual monitoring of the plan and its revision procedure

What makes this programme different

The plan is built step by step on a fully costed case, from project sheet to funding schedule
The impact of deferring a project is tested live on the model
A project sheet template and a plan template are completed during the day

Programme

1Scoping and project identification

Placing every project on the same grid

  • Scope of the plan and time horizon adopted
  • Standard project sheet and data to be collected from business units
  • Distinguishing between replacement, compliance and growth investments
  • Ranking criteria and the weightings applied

2Costing and economic appraisal

Moving from the headline figure to full cost

  • Acquisition cost and induced operating and maintenance costs
  • Phasing of expenditure across the delivery schedule
  • Expected effects on revenue and on operating expenses
  • Decision-support indicators and the limits of their use

3Funding, balance and steering

Checking that the plan holds

  • Forecast internally generated cash flow and available own resources
  • Use of borrowing and of grants or subsidies
  • Building the multi-year funding schedule
  • Slippage simulation and available room for manoeuvre
  • Annual monitoring and the plan revision procedure

Who is it for

Management controllers and finance managers, as well as entity directors and project leads involved in capital investment programming.

Prerequisites

Ability to read annual financial statements and familiarity with the concept of internally generated cash flow.

Dates & locations

36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.