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Managing Projects as Investments
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Managing Projects as Investments

by Stephen A. Devaux
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
255 pages
7h 45m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Managing Projects as Investments
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chapter one
Redening projects
“Why spend money if not to make money?”
You have just been made manager of a project that has a budget of $5 million.
You are told that we are doing this project under a xed price contract.
Thecontract calls for our company to be paid $4 million upon delivery.
What’s the matter? Why are you looking at me like that? You have a question,
you say?
If you don’t, then you certainly should. Who in their right mind would
ever pay more for a project than the value they expect to get from it?
Asophisticated project manager would immediately ask what’s going on.
Isthere some value other than the payment from this part ...
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ISBN: 9781482212709