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Managing Project Profitability
Decisions are stronger when their financial consequences are visible. Structure forecasts, make assumptions explicit and analyse variances to manage budgets and profitability more effectively. Strengthen your ability to defend a scenario and adjust commitments.
- Duration
- 3 days 21 hours
- Code
- GEP41FR Code
Presentation
Investing in a project is always a commitment to the future. Ideas are plentiful, but which should you choose? An organisation's investment capacity is inherently limited, and successful business strategy is not a matter of chance.
How do you assess a project's relevance? How can you ensure selected projects deliver the expected results and benefits on schedule?
Although no one can predict the future, simple, proven techniques support realistic forecasts and effective monitoring, making project decisions and management more reliable and improving the chances of achieving intended outcomes.
This course provides a systematic approach to managing projected and actual project results.
Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Identify and estimate a project's forecast costs and revenue.
- Calculate profitability over time.
- Identify relevant business indicators for evaluation.
- Monitor expenditure and results throughout the project.
- Analyse the impact of unexpected events and support decision-making.
- Evaluate project performance at completion.
- Implement periodic monitoring of post-project results.
Program
This course comprises 6 modules:
Module 1. Basic definitions and concepts
- Project fundamentals: scope, objectives, deliverables and outcomes; project life cycle versus product or service life cycle.
- Results-Based Management (RBM).
- Financial and non-financial results.
- Fundamental project planning, monitoring and evaluation principles: areas to control, performance criteria and indicators.
Module 2. Planning profitability
- Cost estimation techniques.
- Types of costs.
- Revenue estimation.
- Valuing non-financial objectives.
- Accounting for risk.
Module 3. Financial indicators
- Preparing a cash flow schedule.
- Calculating forecast ROI.
- Calculating the payback period.
- Discounting techniques and Net Present Value (NPV).
- The minimum profitability threshold (TRA).
Module 4. Monitoring during the project
- Expenditure control.
- Calculating and interpreting earned value.
- Managing unexpected events through impact analysis.
Module 5. Final and post-project evaluation
- Measuring project performance using key indicators.
- Implementing post-project impact indicators.
- Measuring financial results.
- Measuring non-financial impacts, such as customer experience (CX).
Module 6. Case study
- Applying the techniques learned through a practical case.
Each module lasts half a day. Modules 2 to 5 include straightforward exercises for immediate application of the techniques covered.
Module 6 brings the techniques together in a realistic scenario, helping participants select and apply the right methods in the right circumstances.
For in-company delivery, the case study can be tailored to the types of projects managed by the organisation.
Audience
This course is intended for anyone who proposes, monitors or evaluates projects.
Prerequisites
This course is open to everyone.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
- Practical exercises
Dates and sessions
Choose the date and delivery format that suit you.
No upcoming sessions are currently available.