Cost Management question
Submitted by vijayavadrevu on Sat, 03/23/2013 - 17:00
The intersection of the project work breakdown structure (WBS) and the company's organizational chart is known as:
Ans is Cost or control account
Can anyone explain, as to how ?
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sspawar
Sat, 03/23/2013 - 17:58
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Control account or Chart of
Control account or Chart of account or control point are the terms related to WBS.
But cost of account is vague term ( or wrongly introduced term by mistake by some one (author)), and it is not relevant to WBS or synonym of Control Account.
In the tree structure ( work break down structure) of project ( project statement of work) to work package - control account can be defined as below:
Project ---- sub projects -------- phases -- deliverables ---- work packages ----> control points -- identified as control account number-------- work packege (see PMBOK 4 p 118 and fig 5-8/ also glossary p430 - Control Account)
Control Acccount , in between this break down structure is a point , which has one or many work packages for the purpose of management control.( see 5.3.3.1)
like this OBS (organization break down structure ) is also decomposed and termed as type of WBS and may have control point/ control account.
So it can be said intersection of WBS or Organization chart is known as Control Account.
but Cost account is different term ( of commerce and banking- related to cost amount and estimating)
vijayavadrevu
Tue, 03/26/2013 - 16:59
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Thank You Sir
Thank You Sir