Project Controller's Handbook

For those of us involved in financial reporting or project environments the challenges we face are many. Whether we're forecasting our labour requirements or performing a variance analysis there is no shortage to the issues-both technical and personal-we might encounter.<br /><br />Enter veteran accountant Alana Reid who has spent the majority of her decades-spanning career in project environments. Other books in this genre tend to focus on technical approaches in areas like financial modeling or cost estimating. A Project Controller's Handbook discusses the day-to-day functional operational and reporting issues involved in managing projects. Here readers can expect to find invaluable guidance on . . .<br /><br /> - Establishing a project and its key considerations<br /> - Reporting on labour and timesheet data connections<br /> - Managing vendor and supply contract reports<br /> - Attaining efficiency considering contingencies and managing cashflow<br /> - Weighing a project's environmental and social impacts<br /> - Much more<br /><br />Through this Reid provides meaningful groundwork for understanding the financial processes and relationships crucial to projects' success.<br /><br />Thorough yet concise A Project Controller's Handbook draws on Reid's twenty years of experience to sketch the contours of issues often encountered in project environments from setup through to reporting on final accruals creating a helpful educative resource for anyone entering or looking to break into project environments or take on the role of a controller.