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Project Monitoring and Control: Tools & Steps

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All are important, especially project monitoring. Project monitoring and control is how a project manager ensures the plan they’re implementing with the project team goes off without a hitch. Project controlling involves a lot of steps to thoroughly monitor the project schedule, resources and costs.

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How to Manage Project Cash Flow

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Projects cost money. Those funds have a life cycle of their own and project managers must understand how those costs come in and out of the project and organization. That process is called project cash flow. We’ll look at project cash flow, what it is and how to calculate and manage it.

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7 Tips on Reducing Project Costs

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Reduction of project costs and at least avoiding significant cost overrun is one of the high priority tasks for a project manager. However, it usually becomes challenging due to a great number of factors: underestimation of project costs, uncontrolled changes, poor resource allocation, etc. Poor estimates .

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8 Tips on Reducing Project Costs

Epicflow Blog

Reduction of project costs and at least avoiding significant cost overrun is one of the high priority tasks for a project manager. However, it usually becomes challenging due to a great number of factors: underestimation of project costs, uncontrolled changes, poor resource allocation, etc. Poor estimates .

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Capital Budgeting: Definitions, Steps & Techniques

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Net Present Value When looking at the net present value of a project, you’re viewing the excess of cash inflows beyond cash outflows, adjusting both streams for the time value of money. That is, the internal rate of return generates a yield percentage on a project instead of a dollar value.

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Construction Cost Management: Managing Construction Costs

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It’s a hierarchical chart where each line or row is a specific cost type, item, work or organizing activity. The CBS works at the task level to create a bottom-up analysis of project costs. It’s helpful to look back at historical data for similar projects and seek the guidance of experts for their judgment.

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Guide to Effective Project Cost Management

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Whether it’s designing a new product or improving upon an existing work process, nothing matters more than how much it will cost the company in the end. This is where project cost management comes into play. For this reason, a budget must be determined to ensure that the allocated project costs stay in line.