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7 Budget Templates for Business & Project Budgeting

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The project budget is developed during the planning phase of a project. It’s a document that captures the total costs required to complete a project over a specified timeframe. The more accurate your forecast for project costs, the more likely you’ll be able to deliver a successful project and make a profit.

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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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Best Cost Control Techniques

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Cost control is a practice performed across businesses in most industries. Cost control works by identifying and reducing expenses to increase the profitability of the company. Cost control as a process begins with budgeting. Just toggle over to the dashboard and monitor costs in real time.

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How to Build and Implement a Project Strategy

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However, organizations use project strategy for more complicated strategic projects rather than operational projects. The importance of a project strategy is simple: it helps deliver projects on time, within budget and aligned with larger strategic goals. That’s the project scope.

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Schedule of Values in Construction (Example & Template Included)

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We’ll get into the benefits of a schedule of values in a moment, but the use of this project document helps with financial control, payment management, project monitoring and documentation throughout the project. Here, the schedule of values helps both project owners and contractors.

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The Construction Resource Management Process Explained

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Managing the workforce in a construction project is a complicated endeavor. There are so many different subcontractors and all have to work together to deliver the project on time and within budget. The purpose is to help those projects be delivered on time and within budget. The following is a list of them.

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Construction Cost Management: Managing Construction Costs

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Construction costs are one of many metrics that a general contractor has to keep an eye on. But if the construction cost goes over budget, that’s coming out of the contractor’s pocket. That’s why construction cost management is so important. What Is Construction Cost Management?