Jun 18, 2010

ROLE OF PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT TO MANAGE ANY PROJECT

Estimation of your probabilities of getting success in all of your existing projects
seems to be essential for determining the calculation of anticipated value of project
and also is an integral part of portfolio management. Also it is a fact that most
of the project manager apart from project management offices (PMO) are not as
all involved in all these activities. However they are capable of doing it in more
shaped and better way in the same manner as how the prediction of rain is done
by meteorologists. Usually the term portfolio management is used for existing
projects and hence these are particularly termed as project portfolio management.

If we want our project portfolio management to be very effective, then there are
certain rules and regulations that must be positively fulfilled by any project. Firstly,
the project that is undertaken should be allied with some strict strategies and their
firm goals. Also the project needs to be much consistent and reliable with the values
of culture and firm. Also your undertaken project must contribute to a flow of cash
and that also in a positive manner for the venture; however this contribution can
either be in a direct manner or in an indirect manner. Here must be an effective use
of recourses of firm by which the project has been undertaken. Also not only the
present contribution is included for the betterment of the health of firm but also
should offer some assistance to establish that firm in a fixed manner so as to attain
success in the future.

The significant condition in any project portfolio management, there must be a
proper contribution of projects to the health of firm. When we particularly take
the term “firm’s health” into consideration, we directly or indirectly concerns
with the fiscal stability of any company. There is a particular article by Lynn
Westergard whose title is “measuring company health via cash flow ration”, it is
simply concerned with the cash flow statements as these are supposed to be an
ideal indicator for health measurement. However, there may be two most general
categories of the ratios of cash flow.The first category comprised of the ratios of

that tests used for liquidity and solvency, cash flow operation, entire coverage of the
flow of fund, coverage of cash debits and cash interests where as the next category is
comprised of those ratios that are usually indicated for the viability of any business.
Usually two types of ratios are used in this category. The first one is CE where as
second one is TD.

However it is important for any company or business firm to have its shares
operated in a dematerialized form. These shares of companies are available to
be operated under both the types of depository system of India. The two types
of depository systems are CDSL and NSDL. It depends on our wish that whether we
want to manage all of our shareholdings in an electronic way then there is only a
need to sign up to depository participant which is abbreviated as DP. For this, you
need to create an account with DP that will have a registration either with CDSl or
NSDL.

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