Document Control is Cost Control

 

Cost control is a matter of tracking the 4 phases of the Cost Control Cycle:

 

1.

Meeting profit opportunities with a concept, plans, and estimates of the cost

2.

Tracking the actual cost of work in progress

3.

Analyzing the variations between estimated and actual cost and schedule

4.

Strategic planning for future opportunities

 


Each stage in the cycle requires complete documentation to record what was planned and how the cost was estimated, as well as how the work was done and how changes affected the cost and the schedule.  A professionally designed document control system takes all of these cost accounting requirements into consideration, and works in such a way as to make it easy to relate the programmatic content of the process documents to the accounting records and reports that relate to each stage in the life cycle of a program.

 

David Cook’s experience ensures a document control system that is properly aligned with accepted accounting methods as well as the requirements of regulatory agencies and self-regulating organizations.

 


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