COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 04 – 15 Mar '2024 | 03 – 14 Jun '2024 | 02 – 13 Sep '2024 | 03 – 13 Dec '2024

Duration: 2 Weeks

Customized dates and one-on-one sessions can be organized.

Preamble

This 2 weeks workshop provides an excellent introduction to Project Management and a fast track to understanding the roles and processes that ensure Project success.

Target Groups
• Business and Technical professionals who are required to understand the principles of accounting in project management.
• Administration staff that are required to understand the context of project management within the organization.
• Project team members
• Project accountants
• Senior managers
• Project managers and coordinators
• Project officers

Course Outline
• Design And Assessment Of Project Financial Management System
• Standards For International Project Finance
• Project Finance Report Format
• Project Accounting And Finance Reporting
• Accounting Policies And Standards
• Financial Policies And Procedures For Capital Projects
• Internal Co-Ordination And Communication
• What Is Cash Flow Management?
• Cash Flow Management Format
• Strategies Of Managing Cash Flow
• What Is Financial Performance Management?
• Financial Project Appraisal
• Final Reports
• Contract Performance Guarantees
• Internal Controls
• Monitoring And Evaluation Reports
• The Budgeting Process
• Types Of Budgets
• Effective Budgeting
• Asset Management
• Project Status Reporting

REGISTRATION

To register, kindly fill the Seminar Registration Form and send it to us through:

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancellation of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.

COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 11 – 15 Mar '2024 | 10 – 14 Jun '2024 | 09 – 13 Sep '2024 | 09 – 13 Dec '2024

Duration: 2 Weeks

Customized dates and one-on-one sessions can be organized.

Preamble

The 2 weeks course is structured to help participants acquire skills and knowledge to enable the implementation of quality projects, in time and within budgetary constraints. A fundamental background on the project management key performance indicators, concepts and practice of implementation, monitoring and evaluation will be established, whereby participants will be asked to relate their training to actual issues and experiences at their place of work. 

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

This course builds knowledge and skills in the planning and management of development projects and programmes. It is designed to deepen critical understanding of the strategies, processes, techniques and issues involved in taking ideas for development and turning them into practical realities with identifiable outcomes and benefits.
The course provides an excellent basis for conversion for those with interest and experience in projects for development. The focus of the course is on IT and sales projects but the underlying principles are applicable to all types of project across all sectors of the economy.
On completion of your course, you should be able to understand and examine critically:
• The discipline of project management, within an overall appreciation of the nature and purpose of projects.
• The principles and practice of project planning, design, preparation, and implementation techniques for projects in a development context.
• The theory and practice of management skills for project management, focusing particularly on 'hard' and 'soft' skills for successful project implementation

COURSE OUTLINE

The overall objective of this course is to enhance the knowledge, understanding and skills of participants in the concepts of project management implementation. The following topics will be covered:

• The Concept of Project Management
• Participatory Project Planning (Including Logical Framework Approach)
• Project Implementation ( Including Resource Allocation, WBS And Scheduling)
• Project Activation & Operation
• Approaches to Project Implementation
• Project Implementation Plan
• Factors Affecting Project Implementation
• Project Management Defined
• Characteristic of a good Project Manager
• Project Completion, Closure And Handing Over
• Project Leadership And Team Building
• Project Proposal Writing And Reporting
• Project Planning And Management Software – Ms Project Overview

REGISTRATION

To register, kindly fill the Seminar Registration Form and send it to us through:

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancellation of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.

COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 15 – 26 Jan '2024 | 15 – 26 Apr '2024 | 15 – 26 Jul '2024 | 14 – 25 Oct '2024

Duration: 2 Weeks

Customized dates and one-on-one sessions can be organized.

Preamble

This course is designed to help participants acquire in-depth knowledge of project financing requirements. The course examines various project financing options and lenders' mindsets.

With renewed interests in stimulating growth in critical sectors of the economy, project sponsors, credit committee members and corporate finance managers are under increasing pressure for sound financial decision making. They must thoroughly understand the financial considerations and risk elements involved in project economics and financing.

Participants will learn how to establish "project bankability", perform sound investment evaluations and select appropriate financing options.

Course Outline

1. Introduction: Key issues in project finance and risk management
• Activity in the project finance market
• Factors driving the demand for project finance

2. An overview of crucial issues in project finance
• Commercial motivations for project finance
• Project finance vs. the financing of projects
• The critical issue in all project financings
• Risk and return
• Factors influencing financing techniques and the syndication process

3. Qualitative risk evaluation in project financing
• Country and political risk
• Understanding the project finance process

4. Assessing qualitative risks in a variety of projects.
Identification and assessment of the key risks
• Feasibility studies and review of operating assumptions forselected projects, are the assumptions realistic?
• Review of the key aspects of a summarised feasibility study

5. Assessing the financial viability

6. Building and sensitising the operating cashflow
• Useful Excel sensitivity functions
• Assessing the financial sensitivity of the assigned projects to key risks
• Key factors influencing the project IRR

7. Sources of debt financing in projects

8. Financial yardsticks used by investors: uses and limitations
• Project investment appraisal techniques
• Corporate cost of capital as a basis for evaluating project returns
• How equity investors seek to mitigate risk in project finance
• The trade-off between leveraging equity returns and the need to provide credit support
• Assessing the impact of operating relationships between the project sponsors and the project company on equity returns
• Subordinated debt vs. equity and factors influencing the choice
• Determining an exit route, including IPOs
• Extracting cash from the project company

9. Commercial issues in project finance documentation
• Structure of loan documentation
• Key covenants and potential complications
• Concession agreements
• Structuring off-take agreements
• dealing with market risk
• Choice of construction contract
• Completion and cost overrun guarantees
• Shareholder lock-ins
• Banking security
• Intercreditor issues

10. Why projects face difficulty
• Lessons from experience
• Typical reasons for failure
• Options for equity investors in problem projects and practical problems

REGISTRATION

To register, kindly fill the Seminar Registration Form and send it to us through:

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancellation of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.

COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 04 – 15 Mar '2024 | 03 – 14 Jun '2024 | 02 – 13 Sep '2024 | 02 – 13 Dec '2024  

Duration: 2 Weeks

Computerized Project Management course is available Online.

Customized dates and one-on-one sessions can be organized.

Preamble

Computers and project management is a course designed to help the learner in developing competence in project management software following appreciation of project management information system. For this reason, this course is divided into two sections in a preliminary order. The first section focuses on Project Management Information System (PMIS). Project Management Information System is a framework for guiding the progress of a project and helps to increase its chances of success at all levels. It brings accurate and relevant information to management and other stakeholders within the required time frame, and helps to speed up the decision making process and any action necessary to ensure that the project is on track in terms of time, budget, scope, quality and time line objectives. Learning project management information system in this course is designed to be a foundation that will enable a learner to apply any project management software in project management.
The second section of the course focuses on application project management software where MS Project has been chosen as introductory software. After going through PMIS theories, the learner will have a session for learning and applying MS Project.

Course objectives

• Enable the participant to view and understand project management as a system characterized by information and deliverables input-process –outputs relations.
• Acquire necessary competence to identify and manage project information at project initiation, planning, tracking and execution and closure stages.
• Competence in identifying and ensuring effective communication that increases chances of project success.
• Learn and appreciate the application computer software in project management

Course Outline

Introduction to Project management information systems

• Concept system and Project management process
• System analysis and design
• Project management information system framework- Collecting, Organizing, Storing, Processing and Disseminating

Project information.

• Types of project management information system
• System flowcharts
• Information technology and general functional information systems
• Characteristics of effective project management information system

Project Information Management 

• Project Execution Outputs
• Historical information
• Information distribution
• Request for information
• Work performance information

Project Scope information

• Requirements
• Configuration items (deliverables)
• Configuration management
• Changes/variations

Project Time management information

• Schedule
• Tasks
• Milestones
• Microsoft Project interface (with full round-tripping)
• Timesheets (updating task percentage complete)
• Gantt charts

Project Quality management information

• Reviews and inspections
• Test plans
• Test scripts
• Test runs
• Defects
• Service calls

Project Resources information management

• Categories of resources in project
• Skills data base
• Lessons learnt

Project Cost information management

• Costs
• Revenues
• Benefits
• Project profit and loss
• Project cash flow
• Flexible chart of accounts
• Flexible people cost and charge-out rates
• Budgets
• Forecasts
• Actuals
• Progress payments
• Earned value analysis (reports, graphs, instructions and interpretation analysis)

Project Communications information management

• Data collection, processing and analysis
• Monthly status reporting
• Weekly progress reporting
• Document management
• Document distribution
• Reviews
• Meetings
• Media and publication

Application of Computer Software in Project Management

• Background to computer and project management
• Implementation of a computer system in Project Management
• MS Project application
  
  

REGISTRATION

To register, kindly fill the Seminar Registration Form and send it to us through:
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancelletion of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.