• Aniket Doijod
• Prof. S. S. Chavan
• Prof. B.V. Birajdar

This research work is aimed at assessing the factors affecting profitability and fraud of contractors in construction projects with a view to establishing indebt measures to improve the situation. Among the specific objectives to achieve this aim is identifying and assessing the significant factors affecting contractor’s fraud. Respondents include clients, consultants and contractors, completed closed-ended questionnaires and were required to rank the factors on a Likert scale of 1 to 5. The simple descriptive and frequency analysis were used to analyze the data obtained using SPSS. The total mean, standard deviation, standard error of each of these grouped factors were generated and each of the factors as adequately ranked. The study concludes that, government policies and instability in the economy are the key factors that affect contractors profit negatively since they always put pressures on cost of materials and labour as a result many contractors hardly recover all the cost incurred and recommends that construction organizations should analyze profitability at the onset before embarking on the project. It is only by ascertaining the expected profitability and risk involved that they would be able to achieve the target. The information about company performance, especially about its profitability, is useful in substantiating managerial decisions regarding potential changes in the economic resources that the company will be able to control in the future. This objective aims achieving superior economic results that will increase the company’s competitiveness and will satisfy the shareholders’ interests. The paper presents some company performance analysis models, which highlight the influencing factors. The models are based on regression analysis, and the obtained results emphasize the strong connection between the profitability of the analyzed company expresses through Return on assets and the management of available resources.

Risk, project Finance, fraud, project risk, profitability

"To Study the Factor affecting Profitability & Overcomes the Problem in Project Finance by Case Study", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 6, page no.i318-i331, June-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2406833.pdf

"To Study the Factor affecting Profitability & Overcomes the Problem in Project Finance by Case Study", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 6, page no. ppi318-i331, June-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2406833.pdf