O investimento de impacto é um conceito intermediário entre investimento tradicional e filantropia, e ainda representa uma fração pequena dos valores movimentados nas outras duas áreas. No entanto, é uma área que vem crescendo muito rapidamente e ganhando adeptos não só entre as organizações sociais, mas também nos mercados privado e governamental, e estima-se que essa modalidade de investimento possa movimentar cerca de um trilhão de dólares em 2020. Se o grande diferencial entre o investimento de impacto e o tradicional é justamente o impacto positivo gerado, para que o desenvolvimento do campo seja efetivo, urge um melhor entendimento do que é este impacto e como avaliá-lo. Assim, com a visão de contribuir com a discussão acerca da avaliação do impacto social na seara dos investimentos de impacto, o presente trabalho buscou responder à questão de pesquisa \"Como realizar a avaliação prévia (due diligence) do impacto social de um novo projeto?\". Para tanto, foi proposto um modelo de análise do impacto baseado na experiência do Acumen Fund, que foi aplicado no projeto de tecnologia assistiva mDREET, desenvolvido pelo negócio social Solar Ear. O foco do trabalho foi a fase inicial da avaliação dos investimentos, a due diligence, e o resultado obtido foi a demonstração, na prática, de um modelo simples de avaliação, que se mostrou válido para disseminar a compreensão do processo que leva ao impacto social esperado. Por demandar poucos recursos financeiros e de tempo, uma vez entendido, este modelo pode ser adaptado e replicado em diferentes contextos. / Impact investing is a recent concept, intermediary between traditional investment and philanthropy, and, in terms of assets under management, represents a small fraction from both other areas. Nevertheless, it has been growing at a high pace, and not only amongst the third sector. The private and public sector have been making some moves towards this direction and the estimated potential of this market is around one trillion dollars by 2020. If the big difference between impact investing and traditional investing is the intentional social and environmental positive impact, to enable a consistent growth, there is an urgent need to better define what this impact means and how to measure it. In order to contribute to this discussion, the current work aims to answer the research question \"How to make the due diligence of a new project\'s social impact?\". To accomplish this goal, the author proposes an impact evaluation model based on Acumen Fund practices. This framework was applied in mDREET, an assistive technology project developed by a social business named Solar Ear. The focus has been placed on the tools used in the due diligence phase and as a result, it is presented a simple and low cost process for social impact due diligence, which can be further refined as the company progress in the investment analysis pipeline. Once this process is understood, it can be adapted and used in different occasion/context.

The shareholders of E&P companies evaluate the future performance of these companies in terms of multiple performance attributes. Hence, E&P decision makers have the task of allocating limited resources to available project proposals to deliver the best performance on these various attributes. Additionally, the performance of these proposals on these attributes is uncertain and the attributes of the various proposals are usually correlated. As a result of the above, the E&P portfolio optimisation decision setting is characterised by multiple attributes with uncertain future performance. Most recent contributions in the E&P portfolio optimisation arena seek to adapt modern financial portfolio theory concepts to the E&P project portfolio selection problem. These contributions generally focus on understanding the tradeoffs between risk and return for the attribute NPV while acknowledging the presence of correlation among the assets of the portfolio. The result is usually an efficient frontier where one objective is set over the expected value of the NPV and the other is set over a risk metric calculated from the same attribute where, typically, the risk metric has a closed form solution (e.g., variance, standard deviation, semi-standard deviation). However, this methodology fails to acknowledge the presence of multiple attributes in the E&P decision setting. To fill this gap, this thesis proposes a decision support model to optimise risk and return objectives extracted from the NPV attribute and from other financial and/or operational attributes simultaneously. The result of this approach is an approximate Pareto front that explicitly shows the tradeoffs among these objectives whilst honouring intra-project and inter-project correlations. Intra-project correlations are incorporated into the optimisation by integrating the single project models to the portfolio model to be optimised. Inter-project correlation is included by modelling of the oil price a global variable. Additionally, the model uses a multi-objective simulation-optimisation approach and hence it overcomes the need of using risk metrics with closed form solutions. The model is applied to a set of realistic hypothetical offshore E&P projects. The results show the presence of complex relationships among the objectives in the approximate Pareto set. The ability of the method to unveil these relationships hopes to bring more insight to the decision makers and hence promote better investment decisions in the E&P industry. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1320463 / Thesis (M.Eng.Sc.) -- University of Adelaide, Australian School of Petroleum, 2008

<p>Project evaluation is concerned with indicators setting and performance tracking along the life of a project. It plays an essential role to the success of any project and therefore demands special attention. At the heart of this process lies a system of criteria one has to take into account when performing the evaluation. Our thesis considers this problem in a particular context, namely New Service Development (NSD) projects. The topic is of our interest because innovation (hence NSD) has become an inherent aspect of service industry while the research dedicated to NSD project evaluation is rather limited. Our thesis aims at understanding the purposes, the process of evaluating NSD projects and pointing out specific criteria included during the evaluation of NSD projects. As a result, the research question pursuing is: ‘What are key Evaluation Criteria for New Service Development projects?’ From the literature review on project evaluation and new service development, our study reveals a list of eight important criteria of evaluation. This consists of three financial criteria: (1) profitability, (2) production cost, (3) return on investment; and five non-financial criteria: (4) strategic fit, (5) marketing criteria, (6) corporate social responsibilities, (7) information quality, and (8) facilitating factors. From empirical perspective, qualitative approach is applied to collect data through three case studies and a series of semi-structured interviews with seventeen respondents in Albania, Italy, Sweden and Vietnam, from companies offering various types of service. The case studies build comprehensive understanding on the process of new service development, of project evaluation for NSD whereas interviews check the transferability of the three cases and identify evaluation criteria employed in practice. The empirical results were analyzed in comparison with the arguments found from literature. Regarding the research question, the study found that the set of evaluation criteria collected from empirical study fits with the list of eight criteria proposed by literature. Among this set, two main criteria ‘strategic fit’ (4) and ‘customer satisfaction’ which is apart of ‘marketing criteria’ (5) are recommended as ‘must’ for the evaluation process on any type of NSD project. Findings of this research contribute to the existing knowledge provided by both academic and practitioners regarding both project management field and new service development area, by suggesting a set of key criteria that should be used as guidance in order to succeed with evaluation of NSD projects.</p>

<p>In much of the recent times the practitioner’s fraternity has been focused towards making investment decisions, based on traditional financial evaluation techniques ranging from Net present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Pay Back Period, Profitability Index. Although these techniques have performed satisfactorily and have provided practitioners’ insights about how to value investments and thereby providing them a holistic view of the project and making informed decisions. However, these traditional techniques have focused more on quantifying the risk assessment done at the beginning of the project, by taking into consideration an optimal discount rate based on the firm’s overall cost of capital, and the additional risk associated with the given project. Nevertheless, these traditional Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) techniques, fails to take into account the value of managerial flexibility in business environments associated with a high degree of uncertainty, thereby not encapsulating the value of different options which are embedded within the project, that managers possess and the value of new information during the project lifecycle. In order to value these options, Real Options Valuation technique has been proposed, which predominantly traces its origin from valuing financial options. Though various academicians have supported this technique and the potential benefits it offers to organizations while making investment decisions, it still rests on a number of assumptions, which needs to be validated across different businesses. Therefore, this study focuses on understanding the obstacles involved with the implementation of Real Options Valuation technique, based on the three roadblocks identified by Lander and Pinches (1998).</p><p>A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews was conducted within a given case company X in Sweden. Wherein based on the existing financial evaluation technique that company X uses while making investment decisions are analyzed. Based on the responses provided by the company X officials, the study revealed that company X employs traditional financial evaluation techniques, since they are been widely accepted across a wide range of industries, and also decision makers, and shareholders tend to prefer a probabilistic risk assessment at the beginning of the project, however company X do acknowledge the potential benefits offered by Real Options Valuation technique, but they are not been implemented, because of its ignorance among the key decision makers, coupled with complex mathematical calculations and various assumptions that needs to be incorporated while using Real Options approach for valuing investments, which makes it difficult in the context of given company X for using Real Options approach for valuing investments.</p>

Project evaluation is concerned with indicators setting and performance tracking along the life of a project. It plays an essential role to the success of any project and therefore demands special attention. At the heart of this process lies a system of criteria one has to take into account when performing the evaluation. Our thesis considers this problem in a particular context, namely New Service Development (NSD) projects. The topic is of our interest because innovation (hence NSD) has become an inherent aspect of service industry while the research dedicated to NSD project evaluation is rather limited. Our thesis aims at understanding the purposes, the process of evaluating NSD projects and pointing out specific criteria included during the evaluation of NSD projects. As a result, the research question pursuing is: ‘What are key Evaluation Criteria for New Service Development projects?’ From the literature review on project evaluation and new service development, our study reveals a list of eight important criteria of evaluation. This consists of three financial criteria: (1) profitability, (2) production cost, (3) return on investment; and five non-financial criteria: (4) strategic fit, (5) marketing criteria, (6) corporate social responsibilities, (7) information quality, and (8) facilitating factors. From empirical perspective, qualitative approach is applied to collect data through three case studies and a series of semi-structured interviews with seventeen respondents in Albania, Italy, Sweden and Vietnam, from companies offering various types of service. The case studies build comprehensive understanding on the process of new service development, of project evaluation for NSD whereas interviews check the transferability of the three cases and identify evaluation criteria employed in practice. The empirical results were analyzed in comparison with the arguments found from literature. Regarding the research question, the study found that the set of evaluation criteria collected from empirical study fits with the list of eight criteria proposed by literature. Among this set, two main criteria ‘strategic fit’ (4) and ‘customer satisfaction’ which is apart of ‘marketing criteria’ (5) are recommended as ‘must’ for the evaluation process on any type of NSD project. Findings of this research contribute to the existing knowledge provided by both academic and practitioners regarding both project management field and new service development area, by suggesting a set of key criteria that should be used as guidance in order to succeed with evaluation of NSD projects.

In much of the recent times the practitioner’s fraternity has been focused towards making investment decisions, based on traditional financial evaluation techniques ranging from Net present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Pay Back Period, Profitability Index. Although these techniques have performed satisfactorily and have provided practitioners’ insights about how to value investments and thereby providing them a holistic view of the project and making informed decisions. However, these traditional techniques have focused more on quantifying the risk assessment done at the beginning of the project, by taking into consideration an optimal discount rate based on the firm’s overall cost of capital, and the additional risk associated with the given project. Nevertheless, these traditional Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) techniques, fails to take into account the value of managerial flexibility in business environments associated with a high degree of uncertainty, thereby not encapsulating the value of different options which are embedded within the project, that managers possess and the value of new information during the project lifecycle. In order to value these options, Real Options Valuation technique has been proposed, which predominantly traces its origin from valuing financial options. Though various academicians have supported this technique and the potential benefits it offers to organizations while making investment decisions, it still rests on a number of assumptions, which needs to be validated across different businesses. Therefore, this study focuses on understanding the obstacles involved with the implementation of Real Options Valuation technique, based on the three roadblocks identified by Lander and Pinches (1998). A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews was conducted within a given case company X in Sweden. Wherein based on the existing financial evaluation technique that company X uses while making investment decisions are analyzed. Based on the responses provided by the company X officials, the study revealed that company X employs traditional financial evaluation techniques, since they are been widely accepted across a wide range of industries, and also decision makers, and shareholders tend to prefer a probabilistic risk assessment at the beginning of the project, however company X do acknowledge the potential benefits offered by Real Options Valuation technique, but they are not been implemented, because of its ignorance among the key decision makers, coupled with complex mathematical calculations and various assumptions that needs to be incorporated while using Real Options approach for valuing investments, which makes it difficult in the context of given company X for using Real Options approach for valuing investments.

Magistro baigiamajame darbe išanalizuota ir pateikta finansinių investicinių projektų vertinimo metodika, ši metodika pateikiama praktiškai, pritaikant ją vertinant konkretų finansinį investicinį projektą – mažųjų ir pramoginių laivų prieplaukos statybą Klaipėdos valstybiniame jūrų uoste. Pirmoje darbo dalyje teoriniu aspektu tiriamas ir apibendrinimas finansinių investicinių projektų finansinio, ekonominio ir socialinio vertinimo mokslininkų išvadų turinys, taip pat pateikiamos investavimo ir vertinimo sąvokų apibrėžtys. Antroje darbo dalyje identifikuojamas nagrinėjamo projekto aktualumas, pasirinkimas, aptariamas ir numatomas šio projekto preliminarus ekonominio – socialinio kontekstas, pateikiamas konkretaus minimo projekto finansinio, ekonominio – socialinio vertinimo metodas, aptariamos galimos alternatyvos. Trečioje darbo dalyje apskaičiuojamas ir įvertinamas naujos mažųjų ir pramoginių laivų prieplaukos Lietuvoje poreikis, pateikiami ir apskaičiuojami finansiniai projekto rodikliai, kuriais remiantis apskaičiuojami ir ekonominiai bei socialiniai nagrinėjamo projekto rodikliai. Pagrindžiami finansinio investicinio projekto ekonominis – socialinis teigiami vidaus ir išorės efektai, įrodomas projekto naudingumas investuotojui ir visuomenei. / In this Master's Work there are analyzes and presented the method of the financial investment projects economical – social assessment. This method is taken into practice by assessing the special financial project of water transport sector, which is – „Small and pleasure boat marina construction in port of Klaipeda“. In first part of the work it can be found a summary of scientific papers and research findings, definitions of related concepts. In second part, there are identified problems of the economical – social field discussed in the context of water transport in Lithuania. Also there it is shown the specific method of the financial project assessment. And finally, in the last part of the Master's Work it is shown what financial, economic, social indicators of the financial project were found by adopting the method. According to these indicators it is presented what advantage affect can be reached by approving this specific financial project.

[pt] O Setor de energia elétrica no Brasil vem sofrendo fortes mudanças estruturais, cujo principal objetivo é criar um caráter competitivo para permitir ao setor crescer não mais por investimentos estatais, mas sim pelas mãos do capital privado. Com isso, espera-se que a oferta possa acompanhar a demanda crescente nos últimos anos, devido a falta de investimentos no setor, e fazer com que o risco de déficit de carga no futuro diminua. O Programa Prioritário de Termelétricas, lançado pelo governo federal, vai aumentar a oferta de energia no país com a construção de usinas termelétricas, aproveitando o fato da disponibilidade de gás natural existente, e com isso aumentará a participação de geração térmica na matriz energética brasileira. Essa mudança vai conferir mais confiabilidade ao parque gerador de energia, diminuindo o risco de déficit energético pela redução do nível de água dos reservatórios das usinas hidrelétricas. Além disso, as usinas termelétricas são uma alternativa de curto prazo para o Brasil, pois devido ao reduzido prazo de construção, permitiria o aumento da oferta durante a transição para o mercado competitivo, minimizando com isso os riscos de déficit no futuro. As termelétricas, nessa nova estrutura do setor elétrico brasileiro, podem se declarar flexíveis ou inflexíveis. Uma termelétrica flexível é aquela onde sua energia pode ser comercializada no Mercado Atacadista de Energia (MAE), logo ficando sujeita a volatilidade do mercado spot, mas podendo obter grandes lucros. Uma termelétrica inflexível é aquela onde toda sua energia é comercializada mediante contratos bilaterais, ou seja, a energia gerada não é comercializada no MAE. Isto reduz as incertezas, mas também reduz as oportunidades de grandes lucros. A maior incerteza de um projeto do setor elétrico brasileiro é o preço da energia elétrica que em países onde este setor foi reestruturado, como o Brasil, é determinado através do custo marginal de curto prazo (CMCP), por um modelo de otimização energética não publicado ao mercado. Em vista disso, essa dissertação se propõe a formular um modelo para os preços de energia elétrica no Brasil, avaliar uma planta de geração térmica utilizando a Teoria de Opções Reais aliada a técnica de simulação de Monte Carlo e comparar os resultados com os obtidos por Alessandro de Lima Castro em sua dissertação de Mestrado defendida em abril de 2000 cujo título é Avaliação de Investimento de Capital em Projetos de Geração Termoelétrica no Setor Elétrico Brasileiro Usando Teoria das Opções Reais. / [en] The Brazilian Electricity Sector has experienced strong structural changes, whose main objective is to create a competitiveness character to allow for the sector to grow not more for state investments, but now for the hands of the private capital. So, it is expected that supply can meet the growing demand in the last years, due to the lack of investments in the sector, and consequently reduce the risk of load deficit in the future. The Emergency Program of Thermal Plants, introduced by the federal government, will increase the offer of energy in the country with the construction of thermal plants, taking advantage of the availability of natural gas, and thus, will increase the participation of thermal generation in Brazil. That change will give more reliability to the Brazilian Electric System, reducing the risk of energy deficit due to the reduction of the level of water in the reservoirs of the hydro plants. Besides, thermal plants is a short-term alternative to Brazil, because its construction term is shorter than that of hydro plants, so this will increase the offer of energy during the transition for the competitive market, and so reducing the risk of load deficit in the future. Thermal Plants, in that new structure of the Brazilian Electric Sector, can be declared flexible either or inflexible. A flexible thermal plant is that where its energy can be negotiated in a WholeSale Energy Market, and so being subjects the volatility of the spot market, but it could obtain great profits. An inflexible thermal plant is that where its whole energy is negotiated by through bilateral contracts, that is, the energy generated is not negociated in the WholeSale Energy Market. This reduces uncertainties, but it also reduces the opportunities of great profits. The largest uncertainty of a project of the Brazilian electric sector is the price of electricity, and in countries where this sector was restructured, like in Brazil, it is determined through the short run marginal cost (SRMC), for energetic otimization model not published to the market. Thus, this dissertation intends to formulate a model for the price of electricity in Brazil, to evaluate a thermal plant using Real Options Theory and Monte Carlo simulation, and to compare the results with CASTRO´s dissertation: Evaluation of Capital Investment in Thermoelectric Generation Projects in the Brazilian Electricity Sector Using Real Options Theory. / [es] El Sector de energía eléctrica en Brasil ha sufrido fuertes cambios extructurales, con el objetivo de crear un carácter competitivo que permita el crecimiento de este sector, en manos del capital privado y no más por inversiones estatales. Con esto, se espera que la oferta consiga acompañar la demanda cresciente en los últimos años, debido a la falta de inversiones en el sector, y conseguir que el riesgo de déficit de carga en el futuro disminuya. El Programa Prioritario de Termoeléctricas, lanzado por el gobierno federal, pretende aumentar la oferta de energía en el país con la construcción de centrales termoeléctricas, aprovechando la disponibilidad de gas natural existente. Como consecuencia aumentará la participación de la generación térmica en la matriz energética brasilera. Este cambio dará mayor confiabilidad al parque generador de energía, diminuyendo el riesgo de déficit energético por la reducción del nível de agua de los depósitos de las centrales hidroeléctricas. Además, las centrales termoeléctricas constituyen una alternativa de corto plazo para Brasil que, gracias al reducido plazo de construcción, permitiría el aumento de la oferta durante la transición para el mercado competitivo, minimizando así, los riesgos de déficit en el futuro. Las termoeléctricas, en esta nueva extructura del sector eléctrico brasilero, pueden declararse flexibles o inflexibles. Em una termoeléctrica flexible la energía puede ser comercializada en el Mercado Atacadista de Energía (MAE), sujetándose a la volatilidad del mercado spot, pero pudiendo obtener grandes lucros. Una termoeléctrica inflexível comercializa toda su energía mediante contratos bilaterales, o sea, la energía generada no se comercializa en el MAE. Esto reduce los riesgos, pero también reduce las oportunidades de grandes lucros. El mayor riesgo de un proyecto del sector eléctrico brasilero es el precio de la energía eléctrica que, en países donde este sector fue reextructurado, (como en Brasil) se determina a través del costo marginal de corto plazo (CMCP); a través de un modelo de optimización energética no publicado al mercado. Esta disertación se propone formular un modelo para los precios de energía eléctrica en el Brasil, evaluar una planta de generación térmica utilizando la Teoría de Opciones Reales aliada a la técnica de simulación de Monte Carlo; y comparar nuestros resultados con los obtenidos por Alesandro de Lima Castro en su disertación de Mestrado defendida en abril de 2000 bajo el título Evaluación de Inversión de Capital en Proyectos de Generación Termoeléctrica en el Sector Eléctrico Brasilero Usando Teoría de las Opciones Reales.

[pt] As emissões de gases de efeito estufa (GEE) e seus malefícios ao meio ambiente vêm tomando grande importância no cenário mundial ao longo dos últimos anos. Desde a revolução industrial o mundo passa por uma era de enorme crescimento populacional, grandes avanços tecnológicos e um aumento extraordinário na utilização dos recursos disponíveis. Como efeitos colaterais, há o aumento da poluição, a geração de lixos tóxicos, o desmatamento florestal e por fim, o aquecimento global. Dessa forma, conforme a população do planeta aumenta, torna-se cada vez mais importante a questão do desenvolvimento sustentável na base da economia global. Ao unir a necessidade de manutenção de uma estrutura organizacional simples e de baixo custo com a sustentabilidade empresarial, empresas varejistas podem vir a ter uma combinação de sucesso. A sustentabilidade, apesar de exigir investimentos, tem o potencial de trazer bons resultados através da economia de despesas operacionais e de manutenção. Neste sentido, a proposta do estudo é avaliar a opção de troca dos aparelhos de ar condicionado de uma rede varejista. Partindo do princípio que a rede varejista em questão é uma consumidora livre de energia, e que o preço da energia é uma variável aleatória, será utilizada para avaliar as flexibilidades embutidas no projeto, a Teoria das Opções Reais. / [en] The magnitude of the harm caused by the emission of Green House Gases in the environment has been gaining quite some importance in the World scenario within the past years. Since Industrial Revolution took place, the World has been passing through an era of enormous population growth, great technological advances and an extraordinary utilization of the available resources. As collateral effects, there are the growth of the World’s pollution, the emission of toxic trash, the destruction of forests, and lastly, the climate change. Thus, as the World’s population grows, more important it is the Sustainable Development issue in the center of the global economy. By unifying the need to have a simple organizational structure with low costs with the sustainability issue, retail companies might be able to have a very successful formula to operate. Sustainability, despite asking for new investments, have the capacity of bringing positive financial results through the economy of operational and maintenance costs. Though, the objective of this study is to evaluate the option of changing the air conditioning system of a retail company. Assuming that the retail company is a free consumer of energy in the Brazilian market, and that the price of energy is a random variable, the Real Option Theory will be used to evaluate the managerial flexibilities of the project.

O investimento de impacto é um conceito intermediário entre investimento tradicional e filantropia, e ainda representa uma fração pequena dos valores movimentados nas outras duas áreas. No entanto, é uma área que vem crescendo muito rapidamente e ganhando adeptos não só entre as organizações sociais, mas também nos mercados privado e governamental, e estima-se que essa modalidade de investimento possa movimentar cerca de um trilhão de dólares em 2020. Se o grande diferencial entre o investimento de impacto e o tradicional é justamente o impacto positivo gerado, para que o desenvolvimento do campo seja efetivo, urge um melhor entendimento do que é este impacto e como avaliá-lo. Assim, com a visão de contribuir com a discussão acerca da avaliação do impacto social na seara dos investimentos de impacto, o presente trabalho buscou responder à questão de pesquisa \"Como realizar a avaliação prévia (due diligence) do impacto social de um novo projeto?\". Para tanto, foi proposto um modelo de análise do impacto baseado na experiência do Acumen Fund, que foi aplicado no projeto de tecnologia assistiva mDREET, desenvolvido pelo negócio social Solar Ear. O foco do trabalho foi a fase inicial da avaliação dos investimentos, a due diligence, e o resultado obtido foi a demonstração, na prática, de um modelo simples de avaliação, que se mostrou válido para disseminar a compreensão do processo que leva ao impacto social esperado. Por demandar poucos recursos financeiros e de tempo, uma vez entendido, este modelo pode ser adaptado e replicado em diferentes contextos. / Impact investing is a recent concept, intermediary between traditional investment and philanthropy, and, in terms of assets under management, represents a small fraction from both other areas. Nevertheless, it has been growing at a high pace, and not only amongst the third sector. The private and public sector have been making some moves towards this direction and the estimated potential of this market is around one trillion dollars by 2020. If the big difference between impact investing and traditional investing is the intentional social and environmental positive impact, to enable a consistent growth, there is an urgent need to better define what this impact means and how to measure it. In order to contribute to this discussion, the current work aims to answer the research question \"How to make the due diligence of a new project\'s social impact?\". To accomplish this goal, the author proposes an impact evaluation model based on Acumen Fund practices. This framework was applied in mDREET, an assistive technology project developed by a social business named Solar Ear. The focus has been placed on the tools used in the due diligence phase and as a result, it is presented a simple and low cost process for social impact due diligence, which can be further refined as the company progress in the investment analysis pipeline. Once this process is understood, it can be adapted and used in different occasion/context.