Managing project finances can be challenging without the right tools. Fortunately, Rocketlane provides a robust platform with a comprehensive suite of features to streamline project finances, set budgets, control costs, and make informed decisions based on financial reports.
Rocketlane empowers you to handle project finances efficiently by offering a range of powerful features, including rate cards, cost rates for users, resource management, time tracking, and project/portfolio reporting. These comprehensive financial management capabilities are tailored to meet your specific needs.
Importance of financial management
Proper management of finances is crucial for the growth of your organization and the optimization of your resources. Financial management influences several factors, including:
Budget Control: Effective financial management allows organizations to establish and maintain control over project budgets, ensuring that expenses align with allocated funds and preventing cost overruns.
Resource Allocation: Effective financial management allows project managers to allocate resources efficiently. Understanding project requirements and financial constraints allow suitable resources to be allocated, reducing the risk of investing in multiple resources and minimizing duplicate resource allocation.
Profitability Analysis - Tracking costs, revenue, and time in a centralized location helps in analyzing the financial performance of projects. This facilitates easy evaluation of profits and enables you to make necessary tweaks to your resource and budget allocation.
Risk management - Financial planning provides visibility into areas in the project where resources and budget have been invested, reducing the risk of cost overruns and insufficient funding.
Decision Making - With cutting-edge financial planning, informed decisions can be made to optimize budgeting and resource allocation. Robust reports that speak numbers are essential for making such informed decisions, and this is possible with proper financial management.
Implementing Financial Management using Rocketlane
Rocketlane provides a complete suite of financial management features designed to streamline your project finances:
Rate Cards - Create and manage rate cards that compile bill rates for various roles. Rate cards standardize hourly bill rates across projects and ensure accurate revenue calculations.
Cost Rates - Assign cost rates to individual users, allowing you to calculate project costs based on actual resource utilization and their respective rates.
Resource Management: Plan project budgets and resource allocation using Rocketlane's resource management capabilities. By aligning costs, rates, and availability, you can effectively plan and manage project budgets.
Time Tracking: Capture actual time spent on tasks and projects using Rocketlane's time-tracking functionality. This data helps you analyze project progress, monitor resource utilization, and compare actual results against planned estimates.
Billing types: Select a billing method that is efficient and suits your project needs.
Fixed fee - Assign a fixed fee if the project's scope and size are determined in advance and agreed upon with your customer.
Time and Material - Charge your clients based on the actual time spent on a project and the materials or resources used.
Nonbillable - Refers to activities or tasks that are not directly charged to the client.
Project Financial Reporting: Gain valuable insights into the financial aspects of your projects. Monitor budget usage and the forecasted vs. actual revenue, cost, and profitability at the project level.
Portfolio Reports: Track and understand revenue recognition effectively across your project portfolio for your Fixed Fee and Time and Material projects. These reports facilitate accurate revenue forecasting, ensure compliance with accounting standards, and aid in financial planning and analysis.