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Project Financial Management: Managing Project Financials

ProjectManager.com

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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What Is a Capital Improvement Plan & How to Create One

ProjectManager.com

It can be used for related planning, engineering, design, appraisal or feasibility study costs. The capital improvement plan is used to coordinate between community planning and fiscal management to determine the location, timing and financing of the capital improvement. Related: Free Estimate Template for Excel.

Planning 331
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IT Financial Management (ITFM) Best Practices

ProjectManager.com

ProjectManager’s workflow automation saves time when managing IT finances. Chief Financial Officer The chief financial officer (CFO) is responsible for the management of a business’ finances , including those related to IT. What might not be so clear is how to effectively manage IT finances.

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Hard Costs vs Soft Costs in Construction: Definitions & Examples

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When it comes to budgeting, hard costs are easier to estimate. As you can imagine, these intangible costs will prove far more difficult for you to estimate as you build a budget for your project. It doesn’t mean these soft costs are impossible to estimate and track—but they are definitely moving targets.

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Overcoming bias in project management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Anchoring occurs when a project manager adjusts an estimate closer to a number she previously heard or saw. ” Even if the project manager disbelieves the two-week estimate, she would be unlikely to stick to her two-month plan. The confirmation bias prompts people to agree with evidence that confirms their prior decisions.

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From Laying the Foundation to Completion: The Basics and Challenges of Project Management in Construction

Inloox

A study from Oxford in 2015 fundamentally addressed the question of why major projects fail. The study clearly filtered out the main reasons for this: costs are systematically underestimated, while economic benefits are significantly overestimated. In some cases the difference between actual and estimated numbers was up to 40 percent.

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Project Management Software Case Study: Chute Gerdeman

Function Point

Furthermore, the software provides a way to track the hours of a very large and diverse group of professionals, including architects, graphic designers, materials specifications specialists, implementation team members, IT staff, human resource and administration staff, program managers, sales, finance and temporary freelancers.