Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine project costs
- Determine resource requirements for individual tasks, with input from stakeholders and guidance of others
- Estimate project costs to enable budgets to be developed and implement agreed cost management processes
- Develop and implement a cost management plan, within delegated authority, to ensure clarity of understanding and ongoing management of project finances
- Monitor and control project costs
- Implement agreed financial management processes and procedures to monitor actual expenditure and to control costs
- Select and use cost analysis methods and tools to identify cost variations, evaluate options and recommend actions to a higher project authority
- Implement, monitor and modify agreed actions to maintain financial and overall project objectives throughout the project lifecycle
- Conduct financial completion activities