Project Management for Accountants

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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.

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours

120 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Project Management for Accountants

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours 120 days’ access
Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Project Management for Accountants

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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.

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

accountingcpd

This course has been written by the accountingcpd author team.