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Item How Exchange Rate Fluctuations Affect Project Budget An Analysis of Orange Line Metro Train Lahore(Library Information Services, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, 2022) Afaq Ahmed Waseem; SP20-RPM-018; Dr. Rao Muhammad Atif; LHR TP 7667The main objective set by the study was to check the relationship with exchange rate fluctuation on project budget. Other objectives such as to evaluate the impact of fluctuation on Project Budget and analyze the available strategic options for managing foreign exchange rate risks further guide the study. This research follows a descriptive study of Orange Line (Lahore Metro) project in Lahore that was brought into being on foreign funding. Personnel from management and Finance sections were taken as population for this study pertaining to the year 2021. The study population including 150 orange line employees in Lahore. A sample size of 50 was finally selected for our study following simple random sampling technique that is considered suitable to select the suitable research participant from the population in large numbers. As said earlier, management and Finance sections’ project officials were selected as they were well aware of the project financial matters and managerial issues. For collecting primary data of quantitative nature, a survey questionnaire adapted for this purpose was administered to the target respondents following drop the questionnaire and pick later technique giving the suitable time to the respondents to fill the questionnaire with focused attention. A range of statistical techniques including Frequency distributions, regression analysis were applied to undertake the data analysis. The findings indicated that Orange Line (Lahore Metro) project has threats of Foreign Exchange related Risks as transaction risk, exposure of economic risk, exposure and translation risk. Further revealed by the study that mostly respondents had unanimity of mind that unstable exchange rates influence and upset the revenue as well as profits, exposing an association of foreign exchange risk with financial performance, fluctuations in foreign exchange influences earnings accounting besides the organizational’ market value, similarly fluctuations in foreign exchange influences cash flows negatively. Resultantly, fluctuations in foreign exchange causes deviances from