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What Is a Capital Improvement Plan & How to Create One

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It’s not uncommon for organizations to have more plans than they have funds. A capital improvement plan can guide an organization when it’s trying to figure out which large projects or purchases in which they should invest. But what exactly is a capital improvement plan? What Is a Capital Improvement Plan?

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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. There’s a lot of planning, managing and tracking involved. We’ll get to that and define the various project financials before getting into the process of managing a project’s finances.

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Tracking Budget Variance in Project Management

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Projects are planned, but those plans are rarely executed with changes. Negative Budget Variance: When the actual costs are higher than the budgeted amount, which means the project finances are underperforming and require further investigation to learn why. It’s a key technique that helps monitor and control project costs.

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The Construction Resource Management Process Explained

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Construction resource management is the process of planning and managing resources on a construction site. This is the responsibility of construction managers or project managers, who monitor available resources, allocate and reallocate those resources based on the needs of the project and track and optimize their use.

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Organizational Resources Basics: Managing Company Resources

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Resource planning, resource allocation and resource utilization are all under the umbrella term of organizational resources. To start, resources can include labor, management, expertise, equipment, finances, energy, land and time. ProjectManager’s roadmaps help plan, manage and track organizational resources in real time.

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Google Sheets Budget Template: Track Business Costs Online

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Then, you can estimate their costs and add them to determine how much money you’ll need to finance your business operations. Solely relying on templates puts your project at risk, and companies often need additional tools to help estimate costs and manage resources effectively.

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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. Contractor profits are dependent on keeping to the budget, which is as accurate a forecast of project cost as they can estimate.