{"id":5193,"date":"2023-02-27T02:24:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T02:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm103\/?page_id=5193"},"modified":"2023-02-27T02:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T02:24:38","slug":"overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm103\/learning-pathways\/budget\/overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:302px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wikieducator.org\/File:Bills-budget.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/wikieducator.org\/images\/thumb\/a\/a1\/Bills-budget.jpg\/300px-Bills-budget.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">Budgeting<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<table class=\"cquote\" style=\"margin:auto; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; background-color: transparent; width: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\" valign=\"top\" style=\"border:none; color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding: 10px 10px;\"> \u201c\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"border: none; padding: 4px 10px;\"> Every project boils down to money. If you had a bigger budget, you could probably get more people to do your project more quickly and deliver more. That\u2019s why no project plan is complete until you come up with a budget. But no matter whether your project is big or small, and no matter how many resources and activities are in it, the process for figuring out the bottom line is always the same.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to come up with detailed estimates for all the project costs. Once this is compiled, you add up the cost estimates into a budget plan. It is now possible to track the project according to that budget while the work is ongoing.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20\" valign=\"bottom\" style=\"border: none; color: #B2B7F2; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; padding: 10px 10px;\"> \u201d\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" class=\"cquotecite\" style=\"border: none; padding-right: 4%\">\n<p style=\"font-size: smaller; text-align: right;\"><cite style=\"font-style: normal;\">\u2014Watt, 2014 p108<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\">\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"objectives\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ipm103\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_objectives.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Objectives<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>At the end of this learning pathway you will be able to:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Prepare a cost estimate\n<\/li>\n<li> Describe how to manage a budget\n<\/li>\n<li> Utilise earned and planned value calculations to track project progress\n<\/li>\n<li> Establish a budget for a project\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.041 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.048 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 165\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 1216\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 3719\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1228\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key we_en-mw_:pcache:idhash:178410-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20230226234350 and revision id 1019092\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/ipm103\/learning-pathways\/time\/outputs-gantt-chart-challenge\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/ipm103\/learning-pathways\/budget\/video-signpost\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"wenote-ids\"><script type='text\/javascript' id='wenotes-ids'>\n    var WEnotesSite = \"https:\/\/wikieducator.org\";\n    var WEnotesPath = \"\/Introduction_to_project_management\/IPM103\/Budget\/Overview\";\n    var WEnotesSiteID = \"0e3d258fbd36841f92259eefcd41d5e9\";\n    var WEnotesPathID = \"240f387ee339a694e1edcd9d6125677c\";\n    var WEnotesIDs = { site: \"https:\/\/wikieducator.org\", path: \"\/Introduction_to_project_management\/IPM103\/Budget\/Overview\", site_id: \"0e3d258fbd36841f92259eefcd41d5e9\", path_id: \"240f387ee339a694e1edcd9d6125677c\" };\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer><\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budgeting \u201c Every project boils down to money. 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