Project Management for Accountants

(21 reviews)

by accountingcpd

As an accountant you will already manage projects. But by helping you understand professional project management tools and techniques, this course will take your project management skills to the next level.

price £100+vat
cpd hours 4 CPD hours
access 120 days' access

This course will enable you to

  • Take your project management skills to the next level
  • Use both agile and traditional project management tools and techniques
  • Define a project clearly, write a compelling project brief and get the right people on your project team
  • Identify key milestones, planning considerations, and set controls and processes for your projects
  • Deal with risks and changes in your project
  • Conduct post-project evaluation to learn from the process and measure project success

About the course

As an accountant you will, no doubt, manage projects, whether it is a major new software roll out or just getting the management accounts out on time. You will already have many of the skills required such as assessing risk, understanding the numbers and paying attention to detail. But developing your project management skills and understanding the processes and theory used by professional project managers will help you manage your projects more effectively and efficiently.

This course explores professional project management tools and techniques that you can use, as an accountant, in your day-to-day role. From defining the project through to completion and evaluation, this course will take your project management skills to the next level.

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Contents

  • Project management
    • Projects
    • A project lifecycle
    • Project management
    • Project managers
    • Project management techniques
    • Constraints
  • Defining the project
    • The need for a project
    • Project definition
    • Defining customer needs
    • The brief
    • A project plan
    • Project manager role
    • The project team
    • Project management approaches
  • Beginning the project
    • Planning to plan!
    • Milestone plan
    • Detailed planning
    • Resources
    • Risk evaluation
    • Controls and processes
    • Launch
  • Managing the project
    • Leadership
    • Monitoring and control
    • Dealing with issues
    • Teamwork
    • Time management
    • Monitoring risk
    • Change control
    • The project manager's world
  • Finishing the project
    • Loose ends
    • Project completion
    • Learning from projects
    • A smooth hand-over
    • Project success

How it works

Author

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This course has been written by the accountingcpd author team.

Reviews

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    Andrew J
    28 Jun 2025
    28 Jun 2025
    reinforced view that occasional or regular cashflow issues in a firm should not be "good practice" very good section on internal fraud
    LH
    Lydia H
    03 Jun 2025
    03 Jun 2025
    A great course that discusses all matters related to cash flow management. I noticed that the world map on the "Traditional banking vs. Fintechs" left out New Zealand. Very sad! I know the Americans do this to us regularly, but I thought Britain would remember us as we are in the Commonweath!
    SG
    Shekhar G
    25 May 2025
    25 May 2025
    It gave much insights into what is going on within cash management.
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