STATE BANK OF VIETNAM BANKING ACADEMY Foreign Language Faculty GRADUATION THESIS Financial appraisal of project- A case study of Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank- Head Office Student: Nguyễn Khoa Diệu Ngọc Lecturers: Phạm Quốc Khánh (Ph. D) Bùi Lê Minh (M. A) 20th May, 2012 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This graduate thesis would not have been possible without the guidance and the help of several individuals who in one way or another contributed and extended their valuable assistance in the preparation and completion of this study. First, I would like to send my thanks to Maritime Bank- head office, 88 Láng Hạ Street, Đống Đa Province, Hanoi, especially the staffs at The Economics and Financial Market Research Department, Dr.
Trinh Quang Anh, MA. Hoang Thu Ha, MA. Pham Van Dai for their kind support during my internship there. Then, I would like to thank my family and friends whose sincerity and encouragement I will never forget.
Last but not least, I would like to thank Dr. Pham Quoc Khanh and MA. Bui Le Minh, my internship advisors, who helped me a lot in completing this thesis. Phạm Quốc Khánh Student: Nguyễn Khoa Diệu Ngọc- ATCAK11 MA.
Bùi Lê Minh ABSTRACTS Financial appraisal is a crucial step in the process of making loan- one of the activities that make up a large proportion of revenue for commercial banks each year. Thus, financial appraisal, especially financial appraisal of project needs to be proceeded carefully and thoroughly. However, financial appraisal of project in Vietnam still exists many problems, both in process and quality. Accordingly, there is a need for improved training methods and virtual reality technology holds promise for this application.
The immediate objective of this thesis is to suggest some recommendations in improving financial appraisal of project in Vietnam’s commercial banks in general and in Maritime Bank in particular. In order to reach this objective, the writer has collected some data from Maritime Bank’s credit hand- book, researched many theoretical documents on financial appraisal. Also, the writer has studied the current situation and illustrated the real situation of Maritime Bank’s financial appraisal by a typical example of FTN Co. Then, the thesis compares the standardized process and the real situation in commercial banks, through which gives out conclusion about the achievements and limitations of commercial banks in appraising a project’s finance.
Finally, the thesis also suggests some comments to improve the situation. The writer hopes that these comments will help to improve the financial appraisal of project in Vietnamese commercial banks in the future. Phạm Quốc Khánh Student: Nguyễn Khoa Diệu Ngọc- ATCAK11 MA. Bùi Lê Minh TABLE OF CONTENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
SCOPE OF RESEARCH. CONTENT OF THE THESIS. COMMERCIAL BANK AND PROJECT APPRAISAL. LENDING ACTIVITY AND COMMERCIAL BANKS.
LENDING ACTIVITY OF COMMERCIAL BANKS. PROJECT LOAN IN COMMERCIAL BANKS. THE ROLE OF PROJECT APPRAISAL IN LENDING ACTIVITY OF COMMERCIAL BANKS. PRINCIPLES AND BEST PRACTICES OF PROJECT’S FINANCIAL APPRAISAL.
PRINCIPLES OF MAKING LOAN. BEST PRACTICES OF PROJECT’S FINANCIAL APPRAISAL. Project evaluation framework. Project evaluation criteria.
PROJECT’S FINANCIAL APPRAISAL BY VIETNAM COMMERCIAL BANKS. VIETNAM COMMERCIAL BANKS AND PROJECT FINANCE. CURRENT FINANCIAL SITUATION AFFECT PROJECT FINANCE. Phạm Quốc Khánh Student: Nguyễn Khoa Diệu Ngọc- ATCAK11 MA.
Bùi Lê Minh 1. DEFINITION OF FINANCIAL APPRAISAL. CONDITIONS TO IMPLEMENT A PROJECT’S FINANCIAL APPRAISAL. The condition of information.
The condition of methodology. PROJECT’S FINANCIAL APPRAISAL PRACTICES BY VIETNAM COMMERCIAL BANKS. GENERAL REGULATIONS OF VIETNAM COMMERCIAL BANKS IN MAKING LOAN 15 2. Objects and requirements for project loan.
Term for project loan. Loan interest rate. PROCESS OF PROJECT’S FINANCIAL APPRAISAL IN VIETNAM COMMERCIAL BANKS. CONTENT OF FINANCIAL APPRAISAL OF PROJECT LOAN IN VIETNAM COMMERCIAL BANKS.
Appraise financial condition of the project’s investor. Appraise investment capital of a project. Appraise expected benefits and costs of the project. Appraise annual cash flow of the project.
Appraise and analyze indicators evaluating the financial efficiency of the project 24 2. Define the balance sheet of the ability of paying off the loan. CASE STUDY I: FTN VIETNAM CO., LTD IN MARITIME BANK- APPRAISAL & LOAN APPROVAL REPORT- DATED 06/09/2010. GENERAL INFORMATION OF FTN VIETNAM CO.
FINANCIAL APPRAISAL OF THE PROJECT. Objectives of the project. Appraise financial condition of the project investor. Appraise investment capital of the project and the feasibility of capital structure.
Appraise expected revenue and costs of the project. Appraise annual cash flow of the project. Phạm Quốc Khánh Student: Nguyễn Khoa Diệu Ngọc- ATCAK11 MA. Bùi Lê Minh 1.
Appraise and analyze indicators evaluating the financial efficiency of the project 36 1. Define the balance sheet of the ability of paying off the loan. EVALUATION OF THE QUALITY OF PROJECT LOAN APPRAISAL. Limited in appraisal content.
Limited in collecting information. Limited in human resource. SUGGESTED FOR CAUSES OF EXISTING LIMITATIONS. Causes from commercial banks.
Causes from the customers. SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF PROJECT LOAN APPRAISAL IN VIETNAM COMMERCIAL BANK. IMPROVE THE CONTENT OF PROJECT APPRAISAL. Appraise project’s investment capital.
Determine proper discount rate for each project. Appraise of project’s ability of debt payoff. Appraise the project’s risks. IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF INFORMATION COLLECTION AND FACILITIES.
IMPROVE HUMAN RESOURCES EFFICIENCY. 48 APPENDIX A- REVENUE/ BREAKEVENPOINT AND PROJECT EFFICIENCY PLAN APPENDIX B- PROJECT FINANCIAL INDICATORS APPENDIX C- FINANCIAL ANALYSIS Supervisor: Dr. Phạm Quốc Khánh Student: Nguyễn Khoa Diệu Ngọc- ATCAK11 MA. Bùi Lê Minh LIST OF CHARTS Chart 1: Full Procedure for the Appraisal Stage of the whole process.
1 Chart 2: Project’s financial appraisal process. 16 Chart 3: Credit balance of customer (May 2009- May 2010). 31 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Types of loans. 5 Table 2: Key characteristics of financial analysis of self- financing and nonself- financing projects.
9 Table 3: The model of investment project. 17 Table 4: Sample Project Cash flow Analysis Table. 24 Table 5: The balance sheet of the ability of paying off the loan. 29 Table 6: General information of FTN Vietnam Co.
30 Table 7: Relationship with other credit institutions in the past. 31 Table 8: Investment Capital of the project. 33 Table 9: Types of costs of the project. 34 Table 10: Appraise annual cash flow of the project.
35 Table 11: Investment Efficiency Ratio. 36 Table 12: Expected payment schedule. 36 Table 13: Sensitivity analysis- change in price. 37 Table 14: Sensitivity analysis- change in price and material cost.
Phạm Quốc Khánh Student: Nguyễn Khoa Diệu Ngọc- ATCAK11 MA. Bùi Lê Minh LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CF Cash Flow CIFs Cash Inflows COFs Cash Outflows DPBP Discounted Payback Period EBITDA Earnings Before Interest Tax Depreciation Amortization EBIT Earnings Before Interest Tax EBT Earnings Before Tax FV Future Value IRR Internal Rate of Return MSB Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank NPV Net Present Value PBP Payback Period PI Profitability Index PV Present Value ROA Return On Assets ROE Return On Equity SBV State Bank of Vietnam USD United States Dollar WACC Weighted Average Cost of Capital Supervisor: Dr. Phạm Quốc Khánh Student: Nguyễn Khoa Diệu Ngọc- ATCAK11 MA. Bùi Lê Minh 1 I.
Rationale On the role of intermediary institutions of the economy, banking system is considered the backbone of the economy, also is the major capital channel for investment project sponsored by both the government and corporate. However, recent years, under the impact of the financial crisis, the financial system all over the world has fluctuated significantly, including Vietnamese market and Vietnamese banking system. On one hand, as the financial crisis leads to the decrease the investment rate, through which makes the revenue from the credit activity drop. On the other hand, in the difficult background of the global economy, there are many high- risk investment projects required to be appraised carefully.
Therefore, in such background, banks should focus on investment projects, especially making loan activity. This kind of activity implicit high risks, unexpected results because of the variability of the competitive market and the exchange rate, etc. Therefore, in order to invest effectively, commercial banks have to appraise the project comprehensively and carefully. As a result, appraisal activity not only helps the bank eliminate the risks, but also makes the investment activity more effective.
Moreover, a good appraisal process may limit the default risk and eliminate ineffective business. The diagram below illustrated the full procedure for the Appraisal stage of the whole process Loan security Documents Customer Project measure Appraisal Appraisal Appraisal Appraisal Chart 1: Full Procedure for the Appraisal Stage of the whole process The Project loan appraisal –financial aspect lies in the third step along with several other aspects, i., legal, socio-economic, technical, and risks management, as mentioned above. In this thesis, I will only focus on the financial aspect of a project loan appraisal. The financial aspect of a project appraisal is a crucial step and it must be appraised and analyzed thoroughly and carefully because based on this the Bank can analyze and assess the ability to repay the loan and loan interest of the customers.
Moreover, financial aspect of project loan is associated directly with what I have studied at university (typically, the subject of Corporate Finance and Commercial Supervisor: Dr. Phạm Quốc Khánh Student: Nguyễn Khoa Diệu Ngọc- ATCAK11 MA. Bùi Lê Minh 2 Banking). Therefore, I can apply and reflect this theoretical foundation in reality, with the target of researching project appraisal process in Maritime Bank and contributing in improving this process both in size and depth.
For all of that reasons, I choose the topic of: “Financial Appraisal of Project”. Research objective The purpose of this document is to complete the written part of my bachelor’s project in English for Banking and Finance. Based on the theoretical foundation of project appraisal and the practice in Vietnam’s Commercial Banks, typically in Maritime Bank, the objective of the thesis is also to propose some solutions aiming to improving the project loan appraisal in Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank. Research methodology The thesis is research based on information collection, statistical analysis, synthetic, and comparable methods.
Scope of research The thesis focuses on the process of project loan appraisal in Maritime Bank Commercial Joint Stock Company. Tasks In order to reach the objective of the thesis, the responsibility in each part: Part 1: Research the theoretical foundation of commercial banks and project loan appraisal process. Part 2: Make clear the situation of project loan appraisal process in Vietnam Commercial Banks. Part 3: Research one typical study case: “FTN Vietnam Co., Ltd in Maritime Bank- Appraisal & Loan Approval Report- dated 06/09/2010”.
Part 4: Evaluate the quality of project loan appraisal, through which suggests some recommendations to improve its quality. Phạm Quốc Khánh Student: Nguyễn Khoa Diệu Ngọc- ATCAK11 MA. Bùi Lê Minh 3 1. Content of the thesis Besides the introduction and conclusion, the thesis includes 4 parts as follow: Part 1: Commercial banks and project appraisal.
Part 2: Project’s financial appraisal by Vietnam Commercial Banks. Part 3: Case studies. Part 4: Discussion/ Recommendation. Phạm Quốc Khánh Student: Nguyễn Khoa Diệu Ngọc- ATCAK11 MA.
Bùi Lê Minh 4 II. COMMERCIAL BANK AND PROJECT APPRAISAL 1. LENDING ACTIVITY AND COMMERCIAL BANKS 1. Commercial banks Banks are one of the most important financial institutions in the economy.
Banks are classified in many types, which depends on the development of the economy in general, and the development of the financial system in typical. Among which commercial banks take the largest proportion of asset size, market shares, and the quantity of banks. According to the law no. 47/2010/QH12 dated June 16th, 2010, on Credit Institutions, commercial bank means a type of bank which may conduct all banking operations and other business activities under this law for profit.