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Project Accounting

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Project accounting differs from standard accounting in that it is designed to monitor the financial progress of a project rather than the overall progress of organizational elements. With Project Accounting, financial reports are specifically created to track the project process. Utilizing Project Accounting provides Project Managers with the ability to accurately assess and monitor project budgets and ensure that the project is proceeding on budget. Project managers can quickly address any cost overruns and revise budgets if necessary.

Project accounting also differs from standard accounting in the time period that it is reported. Standard accounting reports financial progress for fixed periods of time, for example, quarterly or annually. Projects can last from a few days to a number of years. During this time, there may be numerous budget revisions. The project may also be part of a larger overall project. For example, if an organization were constructing a new building that would be the larger project, however telecommunications could be handled as its own project, and as such with a separate project budget.

Costs and revenues that are allocated to projects may be further subdivided into a work breakdown structure (WBS). In utilizing project accounting, you have the flexibility to report at any such level and can also compare historical as well as current budgets.

Project accounting allows companies to accurately assess the ROI of individual projects and enables true performance measurement. Project managers are able to calculate funding advances and actual versus budgeted cost variances using project accounting. As revenue, costs, activities and labors are accurately tracked and measured, project accounting provides future benefits to the organization. Future quotes and estimates can be fine-tuned based on past project performance. Project accounting can also have an impact on the investment decisions that companies make. As companies seek to invest in new projects with low upfront costs, less risk, and longer-term benefits, the costs and benefit information from a project accounting system provides crucial feedback that improves the quality of such important decisions.

Area of Application
Accounting
Project Governance
Project Management

Related Terms
Activity Based Costing
Cost Accounting

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Senior Project Manager

Tenrox web based enterprise project management software is a modular solution that helps simplify your, project planning, project tracking, project accounting, expense tracking, enterprise resource / capacity planning, and time and billing.

Traditional project planning and project management software tools put the burden of creating and updating project plans on the managers shoulders. Tenrox makes your project planning and management quicker and easier by using simple and effective workflow tools to help you get the job done quicker and easier.

Our online business project planning and project accounting system is workflow-driven and replaces the spreadsheets and band-aid applications that leave your project-driven work force and processes disconnected. With work breakdown structures to mirror the way you do business, Tenrox allows you to easily map your projects to your corporate structures: Capture and track project data at any level of detail, mirror every business operation area with distinct functional and approval hierarchies, and summarize or drill down into your project workforce financials. Tenrox is the perfect online enterprise project management software solution to align your projects and workforce with your business goals.

With online project management tools by Tenrox, you obtain real-time information on costs, expenses, revenue, profits, project status, schedules and issues, ensuring successful project management planning and delivery. Tenrox Project Workforce Management Software meets the needs of both service organizations for professional services automation and for internal project management offices so you can manage and view both process and financial impact in real time.

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