Evaluating and Shortlisting Capital Investment Opportunities Using Profit Investment Ratio (PIR) and Risk Exposure Measures

When it comes to evaluating and shortlisting capital investment opportunities, an organization needs to consider selecting and investing in them as capital projects. With this, they must decide if the profit investment ratio (PIR) or value investment ratio (VIR), which is a capital budgeting measure that gauges the potential profitability Read more…

Why Real Estate Developers and Investors Should Have a Comprehensive Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) that Maps the Complete Project Life Cycle Costs and Revenues for Their Real Estate Investment Projects

For real estate developers and investors including special purpose vehicles (SPV) created for Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) projects, the cost of delivering a capital construction project is one of the many financial components needed to manage, monitor, evaluate and report on the viability of real estate investments. To have a complete financial Read more…

Can the Tedious Accruals Estimate Requirement be Eliminated by Implementing a Project Management Information System?

One of the major challenges that face organizations that are involved in capital construction projects delivery is determining the actual cost value at the end of each financial period. The challenge stems from the fact that most financial systems only recognize actual costs for work in place, delivered materials, and Read more…