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How to create a project budget

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I have left items out of several project budgets and I can tell you it’s pretty embarrassing having to ask your project sponsor to approve spending from the reserves because you messed up the budget. In this article we’ll look at how to segment costs, how to find out the cost of things, and then how to structure your budget.

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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. It’s more than just keeping up with costs. But what exactly is financial project management? Learn more What Are Project Financials?

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What Is a Capital Improvement Plan & How to Create One

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That creates a dilemma: how to spend their budget. 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. How do you go about creating a capital improvement plan document? This is usually a multi-year project, often four to six years.

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Schedule of Values in Construction (Example & Template Included)

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The schedule of values (SOV) is a construction document that’s part of the payment process when working on a project. It helps with project management by listing the project’s scope and the costs associated with those task needed to deliver the project successfully. What Is a Schedule of Values?

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Capital Budgeting: Definitions, Steps & Techniques

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In finance, capital is money that a company has, such as earnings or credit, which it can spend or invest on assets. Then we can go through the capital budgeting techniques and the steps to a capital budgeting process. Then we can go through the capital budgeting techniques and the steps to a capital budgeting process.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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The name kanban means billboard in Japanese, and you can see why, as the process involves placing tasks represented by cards on physical or digital kanban boards. The scrum master is the team expert on the process, and they are instrumental in guiding the team to optimize the use of scrum in the project.

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What Is a Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) In Project Management?

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Manufacturing a product or constructing a building is a complicated process, which in turn makes determining the price for that product equally difficult to discern. There are many factors that must be considered, and project managers use a cost breakdown structure to help them determine the cost of that product.