These days you can’t make any decisions about how to maintain or manage your housing assets without your finance department popping up to ask you about the long term cost implications. But they don’t just say ‘can we afford it’: they use jargon. ‘What’s the NPV? When do we breakeven/payback?’ This session aims to demystify these terms, by giving you an overview of the following:
• Common financial appraisal techniques
• How they apply to lifecycle costing, or assessing FIT or other eco schemes
• How assumptions used affect the appraisal
