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Project Financial Management: Managing Project Financials

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Whether you call it project financial management or project accounting, managing a project’s finances is essential to delivering a successful project. We’ll get to that and define the various project financials before getting into the process of managing a project’s finances. They can also get loans to finance the project.

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IT Financial Management (ITFM) Best Practices

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IT financial management is a bit more complicated than that and we’ll explain by more thoroughly defining the term. ProjectManager’s workflow automation saves time when managing IT finances. A CFO can be seen as the business’ controller or treasurer as they all manage finances and accounting to ensure accurate financial reporting.

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What Is Organizational Strategy in Business? (Examples Included)

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We’ll first define the term and then go into the organizational strategy levels, as well as explain its importance in business. Leadership creates this multi-tiered company plan to define, outline and achieve specific goals. Finance: Various initiatives include reducing operational expenses or implementing a new budgeting system.

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Google Sheets Budget Template: Track Business Costs Online

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A budget is a document that’s mainly used to break down the costs of executing a project or running the operations of a business for a period of time and define a maximum spending limit for the procurement of resources. Google Sheets helps with collaboration but it isn’t a true project management software.

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Capital Projects: Capital Planning, Budgeting and Funding

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There’s a lot of money involved in these capital projects and that means getting the funding and allocating the finances wisely. Once a capital plan has been made, it will be reviewed and approved by operations, stakeholders and finance teams. We’ll end with a few examples of capital projects to make the concept more understandable.

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What Is a Balanced Scorecard? (Example & Template Included)

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If you’re not familiar with a balanced scorecard, we’ll define the term and show the four perspectives it tracks as well as explain what should be included in a balanced scorecard. The balanced scorecard measures four aspects of a business or organization: finance, customers, business processes and learning and growth.

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Organizational Resources Basics: Managing Company Resources

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To start, resources can include labor, management, expertise, equipment, finances, energy, land and time. Financial resources: Funds and assets that finance the program or portfolio. Create a Strategic Roadmap Once you’ve defined your strategic goal, you’ll next need to create a strategic roadmap to get you there.