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Financial Management for Project Managers
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Key Learning Outcomes
- Appreciate the importance of understanding project scope and need for financial planning
- Explore financial principles that directly affect projects and develop a working knowledge of how to use financial information in your projects
- Understand the importance of making provision for a variety of different cost impacts on your projects, such as indirect costs, cost escalation over time, and how to work with contingency funds on projects
- Understand the challenges of project scheduling and cost control and learn various techniques and methodologies to deliver projects on schedule and within cost
- Develop the skills you need to ensure that your projects meet or exceed your financial goals
- Understand the financial aspects of project management from a project managerís point of view
- Use different types of estimating techniques to enhance accuracy of project schedule and budget
- Learn how to use Earned Value to perform forecasts
Who Should Attend
This course is tailored for project managers who need an understanding of evaluating projects, the financial impact of change requests, managing project budgets and delivering on time to budget.
- Project Managers and Consultants
- Contract Managers, Business Unit Heads, Construction Managers/ Site Managers, Operations Managers
- Engineers, IT Managers, Technical Director
- Team Manager, Shift Managers, Duty Managers, Client Servicing Managers
- Program Administrator, Project Officer, Project Risk Manager, Project Quality Manager, Compliance Manager
- Scheduling Analyst, Logistician, Procurement Specialist
- Project Portfolio Manager, Resource Portfolio Manager, Project Resources Delivery Manager, Systems Analyst, Business Analyst
Course Director
Jan Steenekamp is an experienced Project Manager with more than 20 years of project management, training and consulting experience. His expertise and project management experience lies in infrastructure, logistics, industrial, production and IT related projects.
