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Gold Seal: 2 Credits * BC Housing: 12 CPD Points
As a Project Manager, you have an integral role in delivering projects on time and on budget. However, you can stumble without a clear understanding of how overheads, project costs, and planned profits are integral pieces of project success. In this course, your instructor, Wayne Newell draws on his 35 years of financial and construction contracting experience to help you recognize problem projects, identify unwanted expenses, increase productivity, manage overhead expenses, and address labor shortages. With a clear understanding and appreciation of the financial side of the business, project managers will be better empowered to support on-time and on-budget project delivery.
Financial understanding is necessary to sustain and improve profits. You’ll learn how and why accountants do what they do and how PMs contribute to accounting processes, financial reviews, and reports. Importance is placed on the processes to ensure the monthly financial reports are consistent and reliable.
Cost control is critical to project performance. PMs learn the causes, costs, and remedies of low productivity, overhead expense controls, impact of revenue and cost accruals, methods to support equipment acquisitions, close-out evaluations, and many more proven methods and strategies.
The major issue facing contractors’ productivity today is the forecasted labor shortage by 2030. This course identifies 8 of the major causes and offers methods to resolve them with a focus on attracting young people to your company.
Technology is the future of construction in improving productivity, eliminating inefficiencies, attracting younger workers, and making job sites safer. This course identifies some of the recent advances that will benefit contractors including cloud computing, collaborative software, BIM, drones, wearables, and offsite and prefab construction.
In this course you will learn:
IMPORTANT NOTE:
This course is a spin-off of the Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers and was requested by a large general contractor to include issues directly applicable to Project Managers. As such, there are some duplications of content and thus attendance at both this course and the Finance and Accounting course is not recommended.
Delivery Method: Virtual Session – Zoom Platform
Course Fee Includes: Access to the course, course materials, and a digital certificate upon completion.
This course is delivered in partnership with local and provincial construction associations across Canada. You will be participating with a group of industry peers from multiple regions.
Sharing a single registration between two or more individuals is not permitted. Please register each person that will be in attendance.
There are no prerequistes to this course.
Attendance is encouraged for those wishing to learn the fundamentals of finance and accounting, interpret and react to financial signals, review, calculate, and discuss financial performance, and gain a new sense of confidence when participating with financial professionals.
Computer or laptop
This course will involve on-screen interaction with your instructor and classmates, reading/viewing on-screen content (slides or videos), and interacting via typing with questions or responses. For this reason, cellphones may not be adequate.
Windows 10 or Mac iOS.
Webcam (Mandatory)– in order to engage and collaborate, participants will be expected to have their webcams on for the duration of the class
Microphone (Mandatory)
Internet connection- For best results, you will want to ensure you have an internet connection with an upload/download speed of 3-5 Mbps. You can test your internet speed here. The minimum recommended speed is 1.5 Mbps, but anything below 3 Mbps may result in loss of quality or buffering. Ideally hardwired connection versus wireless for stability - connect your computer directly to your router using an ethernet cable, rather than using your home wi-fi.
A quiet space with minimal distractions –The microphone will be engaged for interactive sessions. Please plan to be fully engaged in the class and clear your work schedule just as you would for the in-class program.
Comfortable chair