Download or read book A Comprehensive Guide to Project Management Schedule and Cost Control written by Randal Wilson and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2014 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most complete guide to all the principles and techniques you need to successfully schedule projects and control their costs. Not a broad project management guide, it offers focused coverage of every essential aspect of scheduling and cost control -- including key issues ignored by typical PM guides. Expert project manager and long-time instructor Randal Wilson makes scheduling and cost control intuitive through the extensive use of graphs, charts, and case studies, and provides all the formulas and worked examples you need to succeed. Writing for both newcomers and working project managers, Wilson covers all this, and more: Project structures, including differences between projects and programs, and how those differences affect costing and scheduling Initiation: how projects start, how to develop project charters and stakeholder registers, and how to manage stakeholders Planning, in depth: what costs must be addressed, and what schedule constraints must be considered Project schedule analysis: activity definition, WBS, and work packages; activity sequencing and diagramming; proven methodologies for estimating resources and activity durations; and schedule development Project cost analysis: gathering and estimating all project costs, including labor, materials, vendor bids, subcontractors, contracts, equipment, facilities, and direct/indirect costs. Budgeting via top-down, bottom-up, and activity-based methods Project monitoring and control: earned value, tracking Gantt, S-Curves, performance reviews, milestone analysis, change control systems, estimate at completion, forecasting, and much more.
Download or read book Mastering Project Time Management Cost Control and Quality Management written by Randal Wilson and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering Project Time Management, Cost Control, and Quality Management gives managers powerful insights and tools for addressing the "Triple Constraints" that define virtually every project: time, cost, and quality. This book is part of a new series of seven cutting-edge project management guides for both working practitioners and students. Like all books in this series, it offers deep practical insight into the successful design, management, and control of complex modern projects. Using real case studies and proven applications, expert authors show how multiple functions and disciplines can and must be integrated to achieve a successful outcome. Individually, these books focus on realistic, actionable solutions, not theory. Together, they provide comprehensive guidance for working project managers at all levels, including highly-complex enterprise environments. These books also provide indispensable knowledge for anyone pursuing PMI/PMBOK or PRINCE2 certification, or other accreditation in the field.
Download or read book Food Labor and Beverage Cost Control written by Edward E. Sanders and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorough coverage of food and beverage cost control strategies that can be taken from the classroom to the workplace! The material presented in this book represents a thorough coverage of the most essential cost-control categories. There are 14 chapters within the six cost-analysis sections of the Operating Cycle of Control. The sections flow in a logical sequence that presents a path for understanding cost control from menu concept to financial reporting. The six cost-analysis sections are self-contained, so that the reader (student) can go to any section for specific cost-control procedures. Therefore, the book can be taken from the classroom to the workplace. New to this edition: • Clearly defined chapter learning objectives with end-of-chapter discussion questions that can assess readers (students) level of comprehension. • Project exercises following each chapter that are designed to test applied knowledge. • Restaurant Reality Stories that reflect upon what often occurs in restaurant businesses are appropriately placed within each of the 6 sections of the Operating Cycle of Control. • Mobile foodservice (food trucks and trailers) is presented in the Appendix—Restaurant Case and concludes with a project exercise to create a food-truck menu, as well as operational and marketing plans for a mobile foodservice as an additional business revenue source for the existing three-tiered restaurant operation case. • Key Cost and Analysis Formulas (Quick Reference)
Download or read book Cost Control written by David Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combination of factors including slow (or negative) economic growth, intensified cross-border competition, rapidly changing and more costly technological developments, have provoked managers to look hard at ways of further containing costs. As managers brace themselves for yet another round of downsizing and cutbacks they are finding that many of the cutting measures they have taken in the past are not proving to be a long-term solution to the problems faced.
Download or read book The Ernst Young Guide to Total Cost Management written by Ernst & Young LLP and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1992-08-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the use of non-technical language it enables readers to understand the underlying dynamics of cost in order to facilitate effective decisions regarding products and services, workflows, capital investments and day-to-day monitoring of their business. Combining customer's needs and reactions with the financial awareness of a company's strengths and weaknesses, it ties into all current, major business concerns, including environmental awareness and international competitiveness. Features case studies, checklists and self-assessment techniques that will aid readers in initiating a total cost management program.
Download or read book The Cost Management Toolbox written by Lianabel Oliver and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a presentation of how to use financial information to manage costs. It explains how the financial processes of an organization are interrelated, and interprets these processes in the context of the firm's strategic objectives and long-term goals.
Download or read book Food and Beverage Cost Control written by Lea R. Dopson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional foodservice managers are faced with a wide array of challenges on a daily basis. Controlling costs, setting budgets, and pricing goods are essential for success in any hospitality or culinary business. Food and Beverage Cost Control provides the tools required to maintain sales and cost histories, develop systems for monitoring current activities, and forecast future costs. This detailed yet reader-friendly guide helps students and professionals alike understand and apply practical techniques to effectively manage food and beverage costs. Now in its seventh edition, this extensively revised and updated book examines the entire cycle of cost control, including purchasing, production, sales analysis, product costing, food cost formulas, and much more. Each chapter presents complex ideas in a clear, easy-to-understand style. Micro-case studies present students with real-world scenarios and problems, while step-by-step numerical examples highlight the arithmetic necessary to understand cost control-related concepts. Covering everything from food sanitation to service methods, this practical guide helps readers enhance their knowledge of the hospitality management industry and increase their professional self-confidence.
Download or read book Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices written by Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA) and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices provides financial manages with no-nonsense, balanced, and practical strategies that are being targeted and used nationwide for controlling costs by thousands of companies in areas such as human resources, compensation, benefits, purchasing, outsourcing, use of consultants, taxes, and exports. These best practices are based on the trenches experience, research, proprietary databases, and consultants from the Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA) and other leading experts in their fields. * Provides best practices and techniques for controlling costs within a company * New chapters focus on outsourcing costs, downsizing, consultants' costs, and business tax costs * Provides the latest strategies companies re using to control costs
Download or read book Activity Based Cost Management written by Gary Cokins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proven strategy for reducing production and operating costs while increasing profits As the growth of the Internet shifts power to consumers, the pressure on companies to keep prices low will continue to mount. Increasingly corporations are relying on "margin management" and supply chain management as a means of keeping prices low while raising profits. Activity-based costing and management (ABC/M) data is key to succeeding in both these critical management strategies. This book explains how executives can effectively use the information furnished by cutting-edge ABC/M systems. The author, an acknowledged expert in the field, clearly defines the ABC/M system and explains how to use the information it provides for best results. He provides a rational framework for understanding the fifteen key defining characteristics of ABC/M and arms readers with an ABC/M Readiness Assessment test along with extremely user-friendly exhibits.
Download or read book Supply Chain Cost Control Using Activity Based Management written by Matthew Zander and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-07-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having an accurate assessment of company expenditures is a key to staying in business. Activity-based management (ABM) is the only system that offers the tools to correctly assess the outflow involved in a tightly knit supply chain and enables understanding not only of the total cost of ownership (TCO), but also how these costs should be allocated.
Download or read book Food and Beverage Cost Control Study Guide written by Lea R. Dopson and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2007-04-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a practical and applied approach to managing costs for foodservice managers and students For foodservice managers to control costs effectively, they must have a firm grasp of accounting, marketing, and legal issues, as well as food and beverage sanitation, production, and service methods. This fully updated fourth edition of Food and Beverage Cost Control provides students and managers with a wealth of comprehensive resources and the specific tools they need to keep costs low and profit margins high. This new edition features the latest information on foodservice cost control in a global setting, addressing relevant cultural, legal, and technological questions. Highlights of this fourth edition include: A new look at international foodservice cost control in the age of globalization, with a special emphasis on using advanced technologies internationally New Leaders are Readers! features provide students with additional readings related to key topics and concepts for each chapter New Technology Tools have been added throughout the book alongside relevant topics because technology affects practically every aspect of cost control today Expanded and updated Test Your Skills questions help students to reinforce their understanding of the tools and concepts presented Apply What You Have Learned exercises focus on practical applications of topics and concepts toreal-world industry scenarios A bonus CD-ROM packed with exercises that utilize manager-developed Microsoft® Excel spreadsheets A newly created Study Guide provides several additional resources to help students review the material and exercises to test their knowledge of key topics and concepts Students in foodservice management courses will find that Food and Beverage Cost Control, Fourth Edition provides a modern and focused treatment of this vital subject. Working managers will appreciate this useful reference as a source of ready-to-use forms and formulas that can be easily applied to their operations. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Download or read book NRM1 Cost Management Handbook written by David Benge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to measurement and estimating using NRM1, written by the author of NRM1 The 'RICS New rules of measurement: Order of cost estimating and cost planning of capital building works' (referred to as NRM1) is the cornerstone of good cost management of capital building works projects - enabling more effective and accurate cost advice to be given to clients and other project team members, while facilitating better cost control. The NRM1 Cost Management Handbook is the essential guide to how to successfully interpret and apply these rules, including explanations of how to: quantify building works and prepare order of cost estimates and cost plans use the rules as a toolkit for risk management and procurement analyse actual costs for the purpose of collecting benchmark data and preparing cost analyses capture historical cost data for future order of cost estimates and elemental cost plans employ the rules to aid communication manage the complete 'cost management cycle' use the elemental breakdown and cost structures, together with the coding system developed for NRM1, to effectively integrate cost management with Building Information Modelling (BIM). In the NRM1 Cost Management Handbook, David Benge explains in clear terms how NRM1 is meant to be used in familiar quantity surveying tasks, as well as a range of activities of crucial importance for professionals in years to come. Worked examples, flow charts, diagrams, templates and check lists ensure readers of all levels will become confident and competent in the use of NRM1. This book is essential reading for anyone working with NRM1, and is the most authoritative guide to practice available for those preparing to join the industry.
Download or read book Capacity Management A Practitioner Guide written by Annelies van der Veen and published by Van Haren. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capacity Management is described in most key ITSM frameworks: ITIL, ISO 20000 Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and the Application Service Library (ASL) all note the importance of Capacity Management. This major title meets the need for an in-depth practical guide to this critical process. Written and reviewed by some of the world s most respected experts in this field it shows how Capacity Management best practice can support provision of a consistent, acceptable service level at a known and controlled cost. Practical advice covers the essential control of two balances: Supply versus demand and resources versus cost. In times of mean, frugal economic measures, it is essential to focus on those practices that are effective and yield practical results. In enlightened times of sustainability, it is also a requirement to find solutions that satisfy the criteria for 'greenness'. This excellent title shows how Capacity Management works not only within an IT environment but also why it is pivotal in meeting high profile business demands. Aligns with ISO/IEC 20000 and ITIL® ISO/IEC lists a set of required capacity management deliverables ITIL outlines what should be done in capacity management this book starts to describe how to do it Covers details of what capacity management is all about: what is capacity management why do it benefits and cost-benefit analysis how to do it data-flows and activities who does it roles and perspectives implementation, maintenance, improvement, tools Provides comprehensive templates and checklists: objectives, interfaces and data-flows, sub-practices and activities metrics, application sizing parameters, data for modelling deliverables, reports, CMMI levels, KPIs, risk matrix sample capacity plan
Download or read book Handbook of Construction Management written by Abdul Razzak Rumane and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is developed to provide significant information and guidelines to construction and project management professionals (owners, designers, consultants, construction managers, project managers, supervisors, contractors, builders, developers, and many others from the construction-related industry) involved in construction projects (mainly civil construction projects, commercial-A/E projects) and construction-related industries. It covers the importance of construction management principles, procedures, concepts, methods, and tools, and their applications to various activities/components/subsystems of different phases of the life cycle of a construction project. These applications will improve the construction process in order to conveniently manage the project and make the project most qualitative, competitive, and economical. It also discuss the interaction and/or combination among some of the activities/elements of management functions, management processes, and their effective implementation and applications that are essential throughout the life cycle of project to conveniently manage the project. This handbook will: Focus on the construction management system to manage construction projects Include a number of figures and tables which will enhance reader comprehension Provide all related topics/areas of construction management Be of interest to all those involved in construction management and project management Provide information about Building Information Modeling (BIM), and ISO Certification in Construction Industry Offer a chapter on Lean construction The construction project life cycle phases and its activities/elements/subsystems are comprehensively developed and take into consideration Henri Fayol's Management Function concept which was subsequently modified by Koontz and O'Donnel and Management Processes Knowledge Areas described in PMBOK® published by Project Management Institute (PMI). The information available in the book will also prove valuable for academics/instructors to provide construction management/project management students with in-depth knowledge and guidelines followed in the construction projects and familiarize them with construction management practices.
Download or read book Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices written by Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA) and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices provides financial manages with no-nonsense, balanced, and practical strategies that are being targeted and used nationwide for controlling costs by thousands of companies in areas such as human resources, compensation, benefits, purchasing, outsourcing, use of consultants, taxes, and exports. These best practices are based on the trenches experience, research, proprietary databases, and consultants from the Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA) and other leading experts in their fields. * Provides best practices and techniques for controlling costs within a company * New chapters focus on outsourcing costs, downsizing, consultants' costs, and business tax costs * Provides the latest strategies companies re using to control costs
Download or read book Strategic Cost Management written by John K. Shank and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable guide for managers concerned with cost, strategy, and business re-engineering. Experts on the strategic use of cost data, the authors show how stategic cost management is revolutionizing accounting practices in leading companies. Includes numerous examples. 120 line drawings.
Download or read book Project Management Planning and Control written by Albert Lester and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2007 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth edition provides a comprehensive resource for project managers. It describes the latest project management systems that use critical path methods.
