Real Estate Investment Appraisal and Investment Analysis

Document from the year 2020 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: A, , course: property investemnt apprisal and analysis, language: English, abstract: This textbook is offered as a basic knowledge module for Land & Real Property Valuation undergraduate program students in the Dire Dawa University. It comprises an aggregate of selected topics with the aim of enabling learners gain fundamental knowledge in areas related to investment analysis, time value of money, cash flows, real estate investment decision, real estate investment risk measurement, and analysis. The content of the book has six major units are constituted in this book in order to help students gain the required knowledge, skill and attitude domains. The first unit is designed to expose students to the nature of real property investment. It addresses the idea and characteristics of real property investment. In the second unit, the basic concepts and method of computation of the time value of money are presented by discussions of the single cash flow, series cash flow, interest rate and sinking fund. The intention of the unit is to help students develop the basic knowledge of the time value of money in investment analysis general and real property investment. The third unit deals with the conceptual and theoretical discussions of governance and the Ethiopian governance structure particularly focusing on the current government. It is structured to enable students develop the skills, knowledge and attitudes required for adopting the most appropriate manner of governing and exercising control or authority over actions of citizens in various public institutions and to apply an accepted system of regulation to moderate behaviors towards achieving better performances in the institutions over which they preside. The fourth unit of the module deals with public service delivery and change management in the public sector. In this unit, emphasis shall be given to characteristics of public service, citizen center service delivery, the need for change and models of change, change management tools, resistance to change, and mechanisms of overcoming it. The fifth unit addresses the concepts and theories of ethics, social responsibilities, and corruption in public sector. This unit particularly presents topics like ethical theories, ethical behaviors, social responsibilities, types and causes of corruption and mechanisms of combating it. Finally, the module shall be winded up with the discussion of professionalism in the civil service.