Project Cost Management and Sales Forecasting with Excel

Learn to finalize your project budget with cost estimation and a vote breakdown structure, use cost and time data to control projects, and build cash flow diagrams to monitor execution.

Use a work breakdown structure to map activities and estimate the project budget. Identify must-have expenses, cut nonessential costs early, and benchmark with historical data.

Select one or two cost estimation approaches to analyze costs and budgets for your project. Apply expert judgment, analog estimating, parametric and bottom-up methods for accurate client proposals.

Use cost estimations and time data to control your project budget, examine resources and costs, allocate funds, and plan a payment schedule through development and execution phases.

Learn to use cash flow diagrams to track positive and negative cash flow, and classify operating, investing, and financing cash flows during project development, including financing options.

Join section three’s client project game to estimate cost and timing from scope data, make assumptions, and build a final proposal budget in Excel using simple formulas.

Define scope, schedule, and costs from client requirements to prepare a final Excel budget for an Android 3D app with a membership module and database.

Design a simple proposal template in a single Excel sheet by entering the project name, deadlines, and budget, then center content and use formulas to calculate workforce costs.

Design a proposal template in Excel to model project cost management and sales forecasting by calculating daily costs, total workforce, and allocated working days.

Design a proposal template in Excel to finalize project budget by adding additional costs for 3D models and ready assets, calculating total costs, applying a discount, and outlining payment conditions.

Act as a startup to plan an internal project, use cash flow diagrams in Excel for short-term budgeting, make cost assumptions, compare goals with actuals, and prepare investor-ready budgets.

Define the costs of the initiation phase for a six-month internal mobile game development project and use an Excel cash flow diagram to estimate the final budget.

Explore project cost management and budget analysis in Excel by building a six-month cash flow diagram, calculating monthly salaries, equipment, and costs for development and testing devices.

Develop a project cost and budget analysis in Excel by estimating office, hosting, licenses, assets, and monthly cash out, plus publishing fees for Apple Store and Google Play.

Explore building a six month cash flow diagram in Excel, calculate net cash flow, and explore financing options—funds, bank loans, and angel investors—to turn negative cash flow into positive.

Learn to compare actual costs with projected costs using an Excel cash flow model for a six-month mobile game project. Assess variances and budget performance with real-time updates.

Act like a startup to complete a six-month mobile game budget analysis and plan revenue generation through marketing, advertising, and revenue models, using an Excel conversion table to estimate channels.

Define your revenue models for apps or games by choosing pay to play or free to play, and monetize through purchases and ads such as native, dynamic, reward-based, and novelettes.

Define your target audience and where they spend time on social media. Allocate a monthly advertising budget to reach them via Google Play Store and estimate conversions.

Compute sales conversion for a freemium app using an Excel model, with two packages at 20 and 5 dollars, across App Store and Google Play.

Calculate ad-driven sales conversion in Excel by allocating monthly budgets across Apple App Store, Google Play, and Instagram ads, then compute installs and sales revenue with formulas.

Calculate sales conversions and forecast revenue by allocating advertising budgets across instagram, Apple App Store, and Google Play, estimating downloads with unit price, conversion rates, and month-by-month projections in Excel.

Forecast three years of sales and costs in a single Excel sheet, using conversion rates and dulmatin sales numbers to calculate net profit, with the three-year sales forecast template.

Explore short term and long term planning approaches to project budgeting and sales forecasting, calculating three-year revenue using the asset sales conversion diagram to answer investor questions.

Design a 3-year sales forecast template in Excel, defining two revenue models with unit prices $20 and $5, plus download conversion rates and monthly sales projections.

Format the workbook for 12 months, project downloads and two revenue models, calculate total sales revenue and year-one net profit after costs.

Develop year two and three sales forecasts in excel, using monthly download and cost of sales predictions to calculate net profit, with an editable template for future projects.

Master scope definition, cost and schedule management, and on-time project delivery using basic project management terminology and Parexel templates, including marketing budget templates and investor-ready planning tools.