1. How would a cost management plan address the challenges of managing project costs within the internal financial procedures and accounting codes of an organization?
2. What benefits do budgeting processes bring to projects, and what weaknesses do they possess?

Earned-value analysis. A project budget calls for the following expenditures:

Task

Date

Budgeted Amount

Build forms

April 1

$10,000

Pour foundation

April 1

$50,000

May 1

$100,000

Frame walls

May 1

$30,000

June 1

$30,000

Remaining tasks

July 1 and beyond

$500,000

Define each term in your own words, calculate these values for the above project, and show your work:

1. Budgeted cost baseline (make a graph illustrating this one)
2. Budget at completion (BAC)
3. Planned value (PV) as of May 1
4. Earned value (EV) as of May 1 if the foundation work is only two-thirds complete. Everything else is on schedule.
5. SV as of May 1.
6. Actual cost as of May 1 is $160,000. Calculate the cost variance (CV) as of May 1.
7. Schedule performance index (SPI)
8. Cost performance index (CPI)
9. Estimate to complete (ETC), assuming that the previous cost variances will not affect future costs
10. Estimate at completion (EAC)