Project Financial Management

by John Taylor

This course equips the financial project manager or team member with a range of techniques to anticipate and prevent problems throughout the different stages of a project. Discover the right set of tools you need to review, revise, and update your financial models.

price £75+vat
cpd hours 4 CPD hours
access 120 days' access

This course will enable you to

    • Understand the roles and responsibilities of a project finance team.
    • Evaluate the processes involved in managing contracts from a financial perspective.
    • Explore the methods used for the tendering process, cost estimation, cost management planning and preparing budgets.
    • Discover time management that will help you to flag delay cost implications, monitor progress, and predict outcomes.
    • Use various tools, such as Monte Carlo analysis, to help you manage project risks and uncertainties.

About the course

As a project finance manager, or member of a project finance team, you must be able to anticipate time delays that may prove to be costly and evaluate their effect on the financial models of the project.

This course provides an overview of the role and responsibilities of a project finance team throughout the different stages of planning and implementing a project. From securing the right documentation and managing contracts to effectively managing time, risk, and uncertainties of a project, discover techniques that are useful to the project finance team.

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Contents

  • Approaches and documentation
    • What is project financial management?
    • The project finance team
    • When things go wrong
    • Failing projects
    • The main approaches
    • The project initiation document
    • Work breakdown structures
    • Inputs and outputs
    • The completed WBS
    • Joint ventures
  • Cost estimates and budgets
    • Tenders
    • The technical team
    • Preparing the plan
    • The cost management plan
    • Estimating costs
    • The reliability of cost estimates
    • Budget time
    • Preparing budgets
    • The calculations
    • Funding
    • Project management software
  • Time management and delays
    • Watching the clock
    • The importance of time management
    • Gantt charts
    • Critical path analysis
    • The key components of a CPA diagram
    • The skillset
    • The critical chain method
    • Costs and the critical chain method
    • Reason code analysis
    • The financial effects of time delays
  • Risk, uncertainty, and financial performance
    • Expect the unexpected!
    • The principles of managing risk and uncertainty
    • Key performance indicators
    • Information overload
    • Managing financial information
    • The overall objectives

How it works

Author

John Taylor

John is a Chartered Accountant who has spent many years advising small and medium-sized businesses across the North of England. John is the author of two industry standard textbooks: ‘Millichamp - Auditing’ and ‘Forensic Accounting’. He has also written several auditing textbooks for AAT courses.

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Access to this course
Total CPD unitshourshours4 unitshourshours
Access period120 days
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Exclusive news and CPD every week plus monthly webinars, all year round
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Total CPD unitshourshours21 units20 hours21 hours
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Exclusive news and CPD every week plus monthly webinars, all year round
Account manager on hand to support your team's needs
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Keep your whole team up to date.

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Total CPD unitshourshours800+ unitshourshours
Access period12+ months
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Exclusive news and CPD every week plus monthly webinars, all year round
Account manager on hand to support your team's needs
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