Webinar: The CMA's Guide to Project Management
WS301 | Course | Intermediate | Scheduled
Description
A significant number of projects fail to achieve their initial goals and/or are not completed within budget and their original timetable. As a team me
Credits
| Number of Credits | Type of Credits |
|---|---|
| 1.00 | Accounting |
| 1.00 | Business Management & Organization |
Designed For
Public, private, and non-profit organizations and their members - CFOs, CEOs, controllers and managers
Prerequisites
Experience and/or exposure to financial management
Highlights
- Establishing a system: identifying forces that support the status quo; setting milestones and goals; the role of the CMA
- Necessary first steps: set a framework for the project’s activities; identify needed resources; obtain support; decide on a structure; establish a team for a specific project; identify necessary team skill sets
- Project evaluation: analytical tools, strategic evaluation; sources of risk
- Maintaining focus: monitoring and measuring results; keeping to the project’s scope
- Avoiding frequent traps: sunk costs; financing pitfalls; project creep; tunnel vision; failure to integrate the team’s work internally and/or the final project with the remaining organization
- Introduction and examples of analytical tools throughout the session: mapping; CPM; Gantt charts; benchmarking; Pareto analysis; PESTLE analysis; valuation techniques; post-completion evaluations
Objectives
- Understand the process of project management
- Provide management and organizational techniques to establish the necessary environment for success and provide examples of alternative approaches to the process
- Demonstrate the use of analytical tools to assist throughout the process. These tools/techniques can improve the outcome of each step from selecting a project through planning, implementing, controlling, and when necessary, modifying the project.
- Identify traps that frequently occur, and steps to manage through them
- Find references for further research
Preparation
None
Notes
This webinar is provided by Surgent. After registering for the course, you will receive an email from Surgent with instructions for logging in to the webinar and obtaining your eMaterials.
You may confirm that your computer meets the minimum requirements by visiting: https://www.surgentcpe.com/webinartest/.
Prices
- Member (Early Bird)
- $99.00
- Non-Member (Early Bird)
- $99.00
- Member
- $99.00
- Non-Member
- $99.00