Managing Financial & Project Cost Estimation

2 Days Workshop

Introduction

The primary goal of this workshop is to help professionals to forecast their Project Cost or profit estimates, Cash flow and funding requirement. Real current forecasting project cost modelling business cases will be analyzed and scenario solutions will be provided under the guidance of Dr. Steven Liew.

Course Objectives                                                                                                                                   
By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Develop Estimating Projects Times & Cost

  • Identify sources of project cost & Tracking it

  • Calculating the Basis for decision on proceeding or rejecting the project proposal

  • Specify material and labour rates and quantities for each task using work breakdown structure

  • Calculating your Project budgeted Income Statement

  • Applying Earned Value Management (EVM) & Critical Path Method to project management

  • Forecasting Sales and project Profit Model using Scenario analysis

Methodology

Case Study, Group Discussion& Video. 

Who Should Attend

Entrepreneurs, Business Managers, Treasury, Marketing Managers, Project managers, Operational manager, Engineers, Supervisors, and Managers and all professionals who are interested in Project Cost Estimation  

Special Feature: NOTE: Please bring laptop along

Programmed Outline

Day 1

Module 1: Financial Ratios Analysis 

  • Learn how to size up a company quickly by reading their financial ratios 

  • Liquidity 

  • Solvency 

  • Efficiency 

  • Profitability 

  • Asset Management 

  • Assessing drivers of company profitability and growth: - 

  • Operations and investment strategies: operating and investment management 

Module 2: Estimating Projects Times & Cost

  • Quality of Estimates

  • Top-Down vs Bottom-Up Estimating

  • Project Costs Using the Work Breakdown Structure

  • Contract Bid Summary Costs

Module 3: Project Costs Estimate 

  • Source of Project Cost

  • Expenditure over time

  • Tracking project costs

  • Exercise

Module 4: Project Based Budgets (Case Study)

  • Calculation of operating cash flow

  • Calculation of Project payback period, profitability index, IRR & NPV of the project?

  • Basis for decision on proceeding or rejecting the project proposal


Day 2

Module 5: Project Risk Modelling Skills

  • Analysing the potential risks facing an organization

  • Mitigating controls 

  • Weight the financial impact 

  • Cost/benefit decision analysis

  • Risk Model software

Module 6: Project Budget with Income Statement

  • See how well you are staying on budget 

  • Internal Funding

  • External Funding/Other

  • Expenses (category)

  • Exercise

Module 7: Project Cost Management

  • Cost estimating

  • Cost budgeting

  • Cost control

  • Cost Estimation Tools and Techniques

  • Expenses tracking

  • Earned Value Management (EVM)

  • Critical Path Method

  • Exercise

Module 8: Application & Summar

Cost Management (Business Analysis)

Standard Costing Variance and Cost Control

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