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Capital Budgeting: Definitions, Steps & Techniques

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Figuring out what to spend its capital on, such as capital spending on long-term assets, is part of capital budgeting. First, we need to define capital budgeting, what a capital budget is and why it’s important. Then we can go through the capital budgeting techniques and the steps to a capital budgeting process.

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What Is an IT Budget? IT Budgeting Basics (Template Included)

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Managing information costs and managing information security for those costs are part of making an IT budget. First, we need to understand what an IT budget is, how often they’re made and what is the best size for one. What Is an IT Budget? An IT budget consists of all the IT spending for an organization over one year.

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Risk Mitigation Plan: Definition & Top Strategies

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Risk is always present. If we were to try and avoid all risks, it would be paralyzing—not to mention impossible. As you might imagine, there’s a process in project management that addresses risk and how to deal with it. It’s called risk mitigation. No project plan is complete without a solid risk mitigation plan.

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Capital Projects: Capital Planning, Budgeting and Funding

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Capital planning is the process of budgeting for resources that will be used in the future to fulfill long-term plans. What Is Capital Budgeting? Capital budgeting is a process by which a large-scale investment is analyzed, evaluated and prioritized. Capital budgeting increases the likelihood of a better outcome for the company.

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What Is Project Risk? 7 Project Risks to Track

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Controlling risk is one of the most important areas of project management. Project managers need to know how to identify, track and mitigate project risk. Let’s learn what is project risk, some common examples and how can you manage it. What Is Project Risk? Get started for free today.

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Organizational Process Assets: Definitions, Examples & Templates

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Organizational process assets may also include schedules, risk data and earned value data. This allows organizations to better manage their activities by defining what forms to use, and having a definite set of steps for processes, reporting, payment and so forth. Examples of project documents are the project plan, schedule and budget.

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Project Management Basics: Definitions, Methods and Tools

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Learn more The first project management basic is the definition of a project, which allows us to understand what project management is and why it’s so important for any type of organization. Budgets are also part of a project. A project budget outlines these expenditures. Get started for free today. What Is a Project?