Project Finance for PMs: The Information the CFO Needs

Who this course is for

Certified project managers who want to create sustainable mastery and build a custom PM Playbook they can use as they do their projects.

Nobody lied. Every number was right. The project delivered what the charter said, on the money, roughly on the date, and somewhere in month seven the thing it was supposed to buy stopped being worth buying and no report anybody received said so.

What this course actually says

Your financial job is not defending the spend.

It is being the only person in the room who can say whether the spend is still buying what it was supposed to. Nobody has to grant permission for that. The CFO can already see what has been spent. What she cannot see is whether it is still working, and no report she gets tells her.

Budget compliance is not financial success. Staying inside a number is a control outcome.

What you leave able to do

Tell a sponsor, with evidence, whether the money is still buying what it was meant to, early enough for the answer to matter.

Three modules, one month

What the money was supposed to buy. Reconstruct the value claim behind a project already in flight, including the ones where nobody can find the original case. Most PMs discover they have never seen it.

Watching whether it still is. Forecasting, contingency against named risks versus reserve against everything else, and a one page report a CFO will read past line two.

Contracts, and the sentence nobody wants to say. Contract type as a financial decision rather than an administrative one. Then rehearsing telling a sponsor the project has stopped being worth finishing, with the evidence in hand.

You leave with a playbook, not a certificate

Three lessons learned, tied to real projects, in your own words. What your project was actually supposed to buy, in the sponsor's terms and in numbers. How you report money spent against value delivered. And the financial risk you accepted on your organization's behalf when you picked a contract type.

That is your PM Playbook. It lives in your Cheetah account, you can edit any of it, download all of it, and it goes with you when you change employers. Every course adds entries, and so does anything you work out on your own projects in between.

The Custom Playbook Advisor

Describe a situation you are in right now. It answers in three parts and keeps them separate: what standard practice says, what Cheetah's view is, and what your own playbook says about it.

One course in, you have three entries and it will tell you so. Five courses in it starts handing you back conclusions you reached eighteen months ago and forgot.