Stages of Budgeting & International Norms: Date: 18-APR-2020
Stages of Budgeting & International Norms: Date: 18-APR-2020
Stages of Budgeting & International Norms: Date: 18-APR-2020
& INTERNATIONAL
NORMS
Date: 18-APR-2020
TYPES OF BUDGETS
Resource requirements
Historical information
Market conditions
Budget Control
Budget Update
1. DEFINING THE BUDGET
Resource requirement
Labour
Equipment
Material
Budget Estimate
Budge Development
Budget Approval
1.1 RESOURCE REQUIREMENT
Right people with the expertise and skills needed to complete the activities on the project schedule
Develop a list of the human resource requirements detailing the expertise level, areas of experience,
education and language requirements
Utility services such as electricity, telephone lines, access to the internet, office material, office space and
used by the project
1.2 BUDGET ESTIMATE
Analogous
Uses actual cost of previous similar project for estimations
Less costly, less efforts, less time, less accurate
Top Down
Used when total budget is known and the project needs to know the cost of each individual activity
Fixed budget is broken in WBS levels to fit the limitation
Bottom Up
Estimate requires estimating the individual activities and the cost of each input and is adding them up to get the
project total
Parametric
Uses standardize parameter that defines the cost of an activity or task for specific rate or output
Accuracy depends on the data available and whether or no the model can be scalable to different condition
1.2.2 BUDGET DEVELOPMENT
Chart of Accounts
Is a list of all accounts tracked by a single accounting
It is designed to capture financial information to make good financial decision
Account is divided into: Asset, Liability, Equity, Income & Expense
Budget Report Requirement
Reporting requirements come from three sources: the owner, management and the project
Good practice is to develop a table that lists all budget reporting requirements internal and external to the project and the
dates or periods when these reports need to be available.
Budget Management Plan
Is a document that describes how budget variances will be managed at the project,
The level of authority for approving changes to the budget and the process to request changes to the budget
Budget Approval
The completed project budget should be reviewed by the project team and be reviewed by the representative from the
finance department
1.2.3 EXECUTING THE BUDGET
Budget Baseline
The baseline is a time-phased budget that project managers use to measure and monitor budget performance
Will be used to compare with the actual costs incurred by the project as it makes progress
Publishing the Budget
Approved budget needs to be communicated to all people that will use it to monitor, control and make decisions based on
the information about the budget
Budget Execution
Executing the budget is the action of authorizing the expenses approved in the project budget
Budget Targets
By setting budget targets against a schedule the project will be able to have a better opportunity to monitor and control the
budget
Authorize Expense
Authorizing expenses follow the organization's policies that determine who can authorize expenses on behalf of the project
and the limits of the authorizations
1.3 BUDGET CONTROL
Budget Reporting
Expense Report
Variance Report
Burn Ratio Report
Budget Performance
Budget performance is the activity to see if the project expenses are being executed according to the
budget plan and helps identify deviations and develop corrective actions
Earned Value Management
1.3.1 EARNED VALUE MANAGEMENT
A project management technique that measures project progress objectively
EVM combines measurements of scope performance, schedule performance, and cost performance, within a single
integrated methodology
Provides an early warning of performance problems while there is time for corrective action
Improves the definition of project scope, prevents scope creep, communicates objective progress to stakeholders,
and keeps the project team focused on achieving progress
EVM involves calculating below values for each activity or objective from the project’s WBS
Planned Value
Actual Cost
Earned Value
Cost Variance
Schedule Variance
Cost Performance Index
Schedule Performance Index
1.3.1 EARNED VALUE MANAGEMENT
1.3.2 BUDGET ANALYSIS
Identify the causes for the deviations from plan. Major deviations from the budget baseline need to be
analyzed to determine what caused the difference so that steps can be taken to prevent the situation from
happening again in the future, or with similar projects
Forecasting
Earned Value enables the project manager to forecast the probable final cost and schedule results of the
project
With Earned Value, the project does not have to wait until it is almost complete to know that it has a cost
problem
What if Scenario Analysis
Scenario analysis uses mathematical models to aid the project manager get results based on different
alternative situations; a project manager can use a spreadsheet and to place different values to determine
the impact on the budget for different situations that range from increasing personnel to reduce the time
to complete the project, to the implications for the project budget based on currency fluctuations.
1.4 BUDGET UPDATES
Corrective Actions
A predefined limit by which a project may be under or over budget during the project
implementation phase
It is usually set as a small percentage of the total, if the project is above the defined limit
then the project manager needs to take corrective actions to bring the budget back on track
Capture Lessons Learned
Communicate Changes
INTERNATIONAL NORMS
BEST PRACTICES: DEVELOPING BUDGETS
Administration Errors
Optimised Solution
Greater Predictability
Continual Improvement
ADVANTAGES OF ITCMS
EXAMPLES