Evaluation on Cost and Schedule overrun of Project Financing: a Case Study on Commercial Bank of Ethiopia

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2020-06

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Addis Ababa University

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Finance is one of the inputs for the development of the economic supplied mostly by the financial sector. Project financing is funding of a particular investment unit in which a lender is convinced to look initially to viability in marketability, technical aspects, and financial, environmental friendly and sound project management. As CBE(Commercial Bank of Ethiopia ) . Align with this the research was undertaken with the objective of evaluating forecasted cost and time completion overrun of projects financing by Commercial Bank of Ethiopia. The study deployed quantitative and qualitative research approach; descriptive design to construct meaning from extracted data collected from primary and second sources through survey and document review Accordingly, the study came up with the findings that factors CBE was facing in project financing emanate from three determinate factors namely the lender .Promoter and external environment. The study, hence, concluded project financing challenges in CBE were external environment specific (data/information, financial intermediaries, economic & political environment and infrastructure), borrower specific (character of the borrower, nature of the project and management problem of the project promoter) and bank related (character of the bank, credit policy and procedure and credit appraisal & approval) in decreasing order of mean value of major category. From the reached conclusion in the study, it is recommended the bank and concerned parties should take respective actions to tackle the challenges timey.

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nature of the project and management, objective of evaluating forecasted cost, major category, concerned parties

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