It is never too late to do the Project financial planning
The project financial planning would eventually reflect the proper budget set for the project and the control that was exercised by the project manager to maintain the expenses of the project.
You need to consider these two steps before this step:
The Initial Project planning process Project Team building
Money as usual plays the most important role in life. You might consider asking for a financial controller for your project if that is required where lots of cash in and out are involved. For simple projects, a simple Microsoft Excel might be enough though.
Keep documentation for every invoice and expenses used in the project. This is important for any post morterm of a project or audit by your sponsors or management.
Some projects’ financial are examined before the management or sponsor assigns the project to a project manager for execution. This is the most common sense to do.
In other cases, the project manager is required to assess the financial of the project. To do this task, certain financial criteria’s such as the Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR) must be investigated. Here is a business case in Microsoft Excel format which you can download for Free.
Planning your project financial is a very important to measure the success of the project implementation plan.