Conventional project management systems too often fail to tell you whether you are making money, or what to do about it if you"re not. Periodic financial reports aren"t helpful, so it can be nearly impossible to tell whether the whole thing is profitable until the final accounting long after the project is complete. Here, Joe Knight and company the forces behind the blockbuster Financial Intelligence show every project manager, no matter how small his or her company, how to run projects differently. Readers will learn to: 1. Accurately track progress on a weekly basis not just milestones and budget but profitability and make whatever course corrections are necessary 2. Let everyone working on the project see exactly how they"re doing, and harness their ideas about how to fix whatever goes wrong (and something always does) 3. Identify the need for change orders as they happen, and incorporate each one into the overall project financials 4. Communicate weekly with customers bad news...