COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 03 – 14 Feb 2025 | 05 – 16 May 2025 | 04 – 15 Aug 2025 | 03 – 14 Nov 2025

Duration: 2 Weeks

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

PREAMBLE

The CPM course is tailored to enhance the knowledge, understanding and skills of participants in the concepts of project management in the firm. Participants learn skills that promote successful projects with keen practice of time, scope, quality management and within budgetary constraints. A foundation on the project management key performance indicators, concepts and practice of monitoring and evaluation will be shared through applied sessions. Participants will be asked to relate their training through case studies and work experiences.

TARGET GROUP

Departmental heads, planners, project coordinators and managers involved in projects working in public and private sector are encourage to attend this CPM seminar.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Identification and Appraisal of Projects
• PM Processes: Project Initiation, Planning, Implementation, Control and Close.
• Time Management through scheduling and planning.
• Budget Management to ensure the success of projects
• Monitoring & Evaluation during and after project completion. The M &∓ E types, Tools and Methods
• PM Software - The Ms. Project as a Scheduling, Budgeting and Reporting Tool


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: 03 – 14 Mar 2025 | 16 – 27 May 2025 | 08 – 19 Sept 2025 | 08 – 19 Dec 2025

Duration: 1 Week

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

Preamble

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Distinguish performance/VFM audits from financial audits;
• Identify the types of performance/VFM audits based on performance expectations or risks within government programs;
• Understand the role of auditing in public sector governance;
• Understand and consider the steps in planning a performance/VFM audit;
• Understand how programs are selected for audit and how performance/VFM audit objectives are developed based on identified risks/vulnerabilities;
• Describe different data collection and analysis methodologies, and their applicability to specific objectives;
• Review performance auditing approaches for economy, efficiency and effectiveness;
• Review audit program development and components of audit fieldwork;
• Identify elements of audit findings including cause, condition, criteria and effect;
• Review evidence in terms or quality, quantity, and types;
• Review audit reports and report writing; and
• Review best practice suggestions for developing audit recommendations.

COURSE OUTLINE

1. Concept and Purpose of Performance/VFM Audits

• Overview of performance auditing process
• Characteristics of performance audits
• Role of auditing in public sector governance
• Differences from financial audits
• Selected standards for performance/VFM audits
• Sources of audit guidelines
• Interdisciplinary knowledge requirements for government auditing
• Exercise – Challenges to performance auditing

2. Audit Plans

• Performance auditing planning process
• Audit selection
• Audit ability
• Estimating audit budgets
• Selection and prioritization under constraints
• Case study – Fleet Services Branch

3. Planning for Specific Audit Projects

• Audit standards
• Mapping programs
• Overview of Input-Process-Output-Outcome approach
• Definition of program
• Program design and components
• Government service delivery model
• Steps in mapping a program
• Exercise: Mapping a program within Fleet Services Branch

4. Establishing Audit Objectives and Scope

• Defining/refining the audit objective
• Develop audit scope
• Government performance expectations model
• Performance measurement
• Performance measures
• Well-developed audit objectives
• Exercise – Developing audit objectives for Fleet Services Branch

5. Audit Methodology Using a Measurement-Based Approach

• How to conduct a measurement-based performance audit
• Program definition and performance expectations
• Government expectations model
• Analyzing program performance through performance measures
• Sources of performance criteria
• Exercise: Performance criteria within Fleet Services Branch

6. Developing Audit Methodology

• Steps required to develop audit methodology
• Qualitative methods of gathering evidence
• Quantitative methods of gathering evidence
• Methodology considerations
• Exercise: Match objectives to methodologies

7. Selected Performance Audit Approaches

• Auditing input economy
• Auditing process efficiency
• Auditing outcome effectiveness

8. Audit Program and Fieldwork

• Developing the audit program
• Exercise: Capital equipment replacement program of Fleet Services Branch
• Conducting the fieldwork
• Exercise: Audit fieldwork for the Fleet Services Branch Audit

9. Audit Findings and Evidence

• Elements of audit findings
• Audit guidelines
• Audit criteria
• Types of findings
• Fieldwork standards
• Types of evidence
• Hierarchy of evidence.
• Exercise: Distinguish elements of a finding from case studies; identify different types of evidence

10. Audit Reporting and Best Practices

• Reports and report writing
• Presenting audit findings
• Describing key relationships
• Exercises: Various exercises to encourage selected best practice writing/editing practices
• Report outline development
• Developing conclusions
• Developing recommendations
• Exercise: Write a high impact recommendation
• Follow-up and Follow-through

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 – 07 Mar 2025 | 02 – 06 Jun 2025 | 01 – 05 Sep 2025 | 01 – 05 Dec 2025

Duration: 1 Week

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

Preamble

The course aims at imparting to the students knowledge of principles of processes commonly used in project cycle management and the skills for effective application of such processes for sustainable community-driven development programmes. It will cover the tools and techniques for identification, analysis, design,implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes and projects from the point of view of allstakeholders.

Course objectives :

The course will develop the students’ skills for:

• Conducting in-depth analysis of geographical, environmental, political, and institutional landscape of a development challenge ;
• Identification of a holistic project concept that addresses immediate and long-term challenges and concerns through collaborative and participatory approaches;
• Identification of data/information needed for preparing a feasible project proposal;
• Collection of data, and analysis and synthesis of relevant information into a logical and cohesive project proposal which is feasible from all angles– technology, markets, inputs, institutions, management, environment, finance, and implementability;
• Analysis of risks inherent in the projects and formulation of feasible risk management approaches as back-up solutions;
• Identification of funding sources for long-term capital requirements and day-to-day working capital, and ability to liaise with the agencies for timely flow of funds;
• Critical appraisal of projects by financial institutions and funding agencies;
• Development of work plans for effective implementation of the projects through teams
consisting of project staff, beneficiaries and other key stakeholders;
• Integration of knowledge gained from monitoring and evaluation systems into the project
design and revision of project objectives and activities; and
• Use of commercial project management software packages and an appreciation of their limitations.

Course Outline

1. Project Idea Generation
• Project – Definitions, Attributes
• Project Life Cycle
• Project Identification – Approaches for Generation and Screening of Project Ideas – Individual and Group Creativity Methods
• Appreciation of macro-environment in relation to project choice o
• Financial Mgt. Tools for Project Screening – Investment, Benefits, Payback, ROI

2. Project Design

• Project Feasibility Study – Aspects of
• Project Preparation and Appraisal
Steps and Processes
• Cash Flow Estimates
• Concepts of Economies of Scale and Minimum Volumes
• Break-even analysis and need for healthy growth of cash inflows and surplus
• Cash Flow Analysis and use of MS Excel
• Sensitivity Analysis with MS Excel

3. Project Financing and Appraisal

• Sources for project funds – long-term and working capital
• Decision on Capital Structure (Debt-Equity), including tax-related issues
• Preparation of Discounted Cash Flow Statements (where necessary) and criteria for financial appraisal – Payback, ROI, ARR, NPV, IRR, Discounted Payback/ARR/ROI
• Project Budgets and their integration with the organisational budget
• Project Appraisal Process by FIs and Funding Agencies
• Simulation of Project Appraisal by students in groups and Presentations

4. Project Implementation Planning
• DBS, WBS, Activity Lists, Predecessor Relationships Estimation of Duration
• Project Organization
• Preparation of networks and Gantt Charts
• Resource estimation, leveling, allocation
• Concept of Optimum Project Duration
• Critical Path and Critical Chain – Importance of TOC
• Project Budget Revision based on resource schedule
• Project Management Information System
• Project Monitoring and Control Plan
• Project Risk Management and Fall-back solutions
• Project Implementation Completion and Exit Strategy
• Programme/Project Evaluation Plan
• Use of standard PM software packages for implementation planning

5. Project Implementation Management
• Need for team approach
• Importance of communication
• Project Systems and Processes for procurement, award of contracts, workforce management and reviews
• Earned Value Method
• Participatory Implementation
• Management issues and their resolution
• Project Manager – Unique Requirements

6. Project Monitoring and Evaluation
• Centralised vs. Participatory Monitoring
• Optimal Project Review Intervals
• Use of PM software for monitoring
• Control Decisions based on monitoring inputs
• Project Evaluation
o Evaluation Study Design
• Formative vs. Summative
• Desk vs. Field-based
• Internal vs. External
o Data Analysis, Inference and Conclusion
o Project Revision and New Projects

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: 17 – 28 Mar 2025 | 16 – 27th Jun 2025 | 15 – 26 Sept 2025 | 08 – 19 Dec 2025

Duration: 2 weeks

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

Preamble

The course aims at imparting to the participants knowledge of ERM is the function of studying the risks that may hinder a corporation's ability to achieve its goals and then deciding how to overcome those risks. Studies regarding risk management were done by different organizations, including ISO which issued ISO 31000 on risk management.

Course objectives :

The course will develop the students’ skills for:

• Improving risk monitoring and control
• Analyzing and assessing risks
• Advising directors on risks
• Controlling risks
• Mitigating risks
• Reporting risks

Course Outline

Introduction

v  Risk perception

v  Why should we care about risk

v  Internal environment changes

v  External environment changes

Risk Management and corporate governance

v  Introduction to corporate governance

v  GRC concept: governance, risk and compliance

v  GRC system: governance, risks and controls.

v  Risk management as part of corporate governance.

v  Governance failures

v  Risk based decision making

Risk management and corporate control environment

v  Risk management’s influence on designing internal controls

v  Risk-based internal audit assessment of risk management performance

ERM and its evolution

v  ERM evolution

v  ERM benefits

v  ERM platform

·       Strategic approach

·       Operations and tactics

·       Business reporting

·       Compliance and process

Risk categories

v  Strategic risks

v  Reporting risks

v  Financial risks

v  Physical: life and safety risks

v  Compliance

·       Laws and regulations

·       Financial reporting standards

v  Operations

·       External environment: socioeconomic, regulations, technology and competition

·       Internal environment: structure, processes and culture

ERM components

v  Internal environment

v  Objectives setting

v  Event identification

v  Risk assessment

• The black swan challenge
• Quantitative versus qualitative analysis

v  Risk response

v  Control activities

v  Information and communication

v  Risk monitoring

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.