Project Plan

Everyone knows that Project Financing is harder today than it may have ever been. Most people want to rebuild the economy, get people back to work, help the environment, and make some money while they are at it for their families.

A little understood method for accomplishing this is offered by some firms is using Financial Leveraging for such purposes. The strict regulations on solicitation and releasing confidential information about these programs can seriously hamper the availability of this method…but that does not mean that it will not work.

As with anything, there is much misinformation floating around the internet about the illusive “Platform Financing” which many people have heard about, but very few have had the privilege of seeing it actually produce results.

Project Finance Firms do exist that have seen success with these programs and these are the people to speak with. You will not be able to actually speak with the Traders involved in the program. There will be a Fund Manager at the head of the operation that will deal with the Traders on your behalf. Be sure the person at the head of the Trade has experience and has the qualifications as well as the credentials to be able to manage such an operation. [...]

Over the past decade or so we have been constantly bombarded with news about private and public projects that have either delivered scope at well over the expected budget or had to reduce scope to even come near to the original budget. Current thinking within project management methodologies only discuss the financial aspects of a project at a high level, leaving the “student” without any real way of working to greater understand the impact of their decisions on the financial results of the programme. In turn, the business case development is usually given minimal time and is a rushed job in the end. Investing in the correct people and time up front to review feasibility and secondly the business case is a must to ensure the total on target delivery of a project.

In the financial climate we are in, where budgets and costs are being cut, the time is now to ensure that whatever funding a company has available, that they invest it wisely – to do that you need to ensure that the project in the end – budget, costs and benefits are comprehensively reviewed.

With this in mind – using the Pathfinder Project Management Methodology as a basis, below are the 10 key steps to successful project financial management [...]