Project Management: A Financial Perspective ON DEMAND

Overview

This course is designed to provide you with a deep understanding of the applications and importance of project management. You will learn how to assess a project with respect to time, costs, and resources in order to effectively and efficiently reach your goals. You will become familiar with the five processes involved in project management that are essential to being an expert Project Manager. This course follows for the most part the framework within the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). The material, however, places a financial focus on projects as a way to accomplish desired changes in the enterprise in a coordinated and predictable way for favorable outcomes. Through better project management, you can reduce or eliminate failed projects and reduce the costs associated with successful ones, increasing enterprise effectiveness in providing the maximum value to shareholders.

Highlights

Overview of project management. Planning and controlling projects. Project management concepts and process. Using the work breakdown structure to plan a project. Project scheduling. Project control and evaluation. Project control using earned value analysis. Lifecycle costing and target costing. Economic feasibility study for a capital investment project. Managing project risks. Project communication and documentation.

Prerequisites

None.

Designed For

CPAs, CFOs, controllers, leaders and managers.

Objectives

Recognize what project management is and the steps involved in managing a project. Define what the PMI is and what they do. Identify attributes of an effective project manager and project teams. Recognize key components of planning and controlling a project, such as responsibilities, schedules, and performance. Identify the purpose of project scorecard metrics. Recognize the relationship between project phases and project life cycle. Identify the documents and roadmaps used during a project. Understand when stakeholders have the greatest influence on a project.