Directory of Generally Accepted Practices - Communications

Project Communications Management includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection , dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information.

... Reference: A Guide To The Project Management Body of Knowledge

Directory of Generally Accepted Practices - Cost

Project Cost Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget.

... Reference: A Guide To The Project Management Body of Knowledge

American Association of Cost Engineers

The American Association of Cost Engineers maintains a good site with cost information related to cost engineering and estimation. A US based non-profit association for project and cost management professionals, world-wide. The AACE emphasize the development and employment of Total Cost Management and has a useful Cost Classification schema with definitions.

International Cost Engineering Council

The International Cost Engineering Council is a world-wide confederation of cost engineering, quantity surveying, and project management societies.

International Society of Parametric Analysis

The International Society of Parametric Analysis (ISPA) is dedicated to parametric estimating: a cost-effective approach to consistent, credible, traceable, and timely assessment of resource requirements for development, production, construction, and operation of hardware and software projects.

Society For Cost Estimation and Analysis

The Society For Cost Estimation and Analysis (SCEA) is a non-profit organization for improvement of cost estimating and analysis in government and industry.

On Project Finance Management

"Project financing is a discipline which includes understanding the rationale for project financing, how to prepare a project financial plan, assess the risks, design the financing mix and raise the funds."


The Project & Finance Management Web Site is dedicated to the discipline of project finance management and decision and risk analysis. The Page is maintained by Paul Allen, Adjunct Professor of Management in the MBA program, Jones Graduate School, Rice University. The Page has a table of contents for Project Finance Information that ranges from a listing of global organizations to law firms with project finance expertise, career information sites and project finance publications.

On Project Cost Management

CPAnet is a web portal for accounting related resources on the Internet. It is an online community for the accounting profession. The CPAnet Web Site is organized and indexed within 18 categories providing a useful tool for accounting research. The CPAnet is easy to use with extensive and relevant accounting information. Some of the discipline zones are Accounting, Assurance, Audit, Consulting, Finance, Financial Planning, Tax and Law, CPA Toolbox, CPA News, Education, Government Lookup, Industry Knowledge, Practice Management and CPA Newsletter.

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