Project Management for Accountants

This course will enable you to

• Take your project management skills to the next level
• Use both agile and traditional project management tools and techniques
• Define a project clearly, write a compelling project brief and get the right people on your project team
• Identify key milestones, planning considerations, and set controls and processes for your projects
• Deal with risks and changes in your project
• Conduct post-project evaluation to learn from the process and measure project success

About the course

As an accountant you will, no doubt, manage projects, whether it is a major new software roll out or just getting the management accounts out on time. You will already have many of the skills required such as assessing risk, understanding the numbers and paying attention to detail. But developing your project management skills and understanding the processes and theory used by professional project managers will help you manage your projects more effectively and efficiently.

This course explores professional project management tools and techniques that you can use, as an accountant, in your day-to-day role. From defining the project through to completion and evaluation, this course will take your project management skills to the next level.