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Professor Anvari Taught manufacturing and industrial systems engineering courses at the University of Michigan for five years where he received his three engineering degrees, and as an adjunct professor he teaches project and cost management at local universities in the Washington DC area. In his early career he worked at General Motors as a production engineer and later as an operations research and systems analyst at the cost and economic analysis center in Washington DC. Mort is currently the ASA (FM&C) Lean Six Sigma (LSS) deployment director and is responsible for cost and economics programs and strategy where he oversees process improvement initiatives, economic studies validation, cost benefit analysis, and risk & uncertainty analysis in support of major defense programs. Mort is Defense Acquisition University Level III Certified in Business, Cost Estimating, and Financial Management (BCEFM) and has won the 2006 DoD modeling and simulation award. In his public lectures, Mort stimulates cost culture debates among government and industry leaders and managers. Professor Anvari has repeatedly appeared on live television programs analyzing the political economy of the Middle East. |
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Subject: Principles of Cost Analysis and Management (PCAM) |
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Cost Management 101 |
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– What are costs and why is managing costs important? |
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– Army’s overall objectives |
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– Change enablers to support Cost Management |
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– The process of Cost Management and how it differs from Budget Management |
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– Defining the various cost objects (which replace APCs/JONOs) |
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– Within a Cost Model, e.g. organizations, products, services, jobs, etc. |
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– Understanding decision points of where to capture information |
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– The difference between cost capturing, allocations, and assignment |
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– Reflecting organizational structures |
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– Replacing APC/JONO’s |
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Cost Management Training |
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– Understanding of why managing costs are important, |
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– Army’s overall objectives, the process of Cost Management, |
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– How it differs from Budget, and key cost terms |
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– Understanding of an ERP, |
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– How to build a Cost Model, |
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– Various cost objects within a Cost Model (e.g. organization, products, job orders, etc.) |
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– Understanding of cost allocations/assignments, |
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– How to choose which to utilize when, |
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– How to evaluate the results of the assignments (Std. vs Actual), and |
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– Rate creation |
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– Understanding of the results of the Cost Model |
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– How various types of analysis and decisions are supported? |
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Cost Management Certificate Course (CMCC) |
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