Our focus
How Project Accounting Australia can empower you
Project Success
Improve your project’s success with numbers that make sense to your project methodology and to your finance department
Manage Risk
Reduce business and financial risk with greater clarity on project scope and business needs, as well as transparency of project delivery
Professional development
Cross-functional training and tooling available to track project delivery, as well as workshops on the project accounting framework
Identifying projects
Enable greater project decision-making with reporting of a true and fair view of the projects plus clearly identify projects that will deliver on desired objective.
About US
Project Accounting Australia (PAA) brings project professionals together through industry standardised approaches to project accounting. Currently, many large organisations are investing in project accounting professionals and teams in order to take advantage of the hybrid accounting and project specialists. These specialists exist mainly from the many “tests” and “failures” that the industries has undergone in the past decade. We are here to drive a standardised approach for organisations that may not have the investment appetite of large organisations, but are looking at increases in efficiency and utilisation of their current Accounting and Project functions. We provide education and advisory services to business and business professionals in order to maximise the benefit of working together as a cross functional team.
Consultants
Tailored counsel for financial implications and recommendations
Advisory
Implementation of project accounting framework
Education services
Training, support and workshops
Tooling
Plug-in software to keep track of project costs and benefits
news + Resources
Software CAPEX: Is my code worth anything?
About a year ago, I was invited by Brad Stokes to talk on the Agile Uprising podcast about the criteria of determining whether software (or other intangibles) that you are building is capitalisable. A year on, I find that this question of whether a piece of software is capitalisable is still an enigma to a[…]
Why should accountants learn Scrum techniques?
It’s interesting for me to reflect on why I decided to learn about Scrum. It was 2015 and I was a fresh AGSM MBA graduate, who got a tap on the shoulder by my then mentor Lourdes Duggineni, who asked me the question every person who completes a major goal in their life should ask[…]
Kan we ban month-end?
On the 29th June, at 4:30pm, just before the books close for the financial year, I found myself waiting. Then, at nearly 5pm, I receive a flood of information from various stakeholders that affect year end and which was requested earlier in the month. Here is when my stress levels hit the roof and anger[…]
Will accountants sink or swim?
In March, earlier this year, as COVID-19 and its reality was becoming evident, I was at Kev Ryan‘s The Future Advisor conference in Noosa. Almost surreally, as I recall now, we were discussing what and how Accountants need to change to ensure we survive and thrive in the coming storm. And then chaos hit. Within[…]
Managing COVID-19 impact on your projects
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been receiving questions around the impact of COVID-19 on projects. As our community grapples with surges in uncertainty and debate, as well as the virus’s flow-on effects – we wanted to share the top 3 topics we’re discussing and how to approach them. (Please note – that just as[…]
Agile ways of working in Finance Business Partnering
Coming up on the 4th May 2020, CA ANZ will be hosting a very different Accounting Conference for the first time – it will be pre-recorded with Live Q&A to follow each talk with any speaker you choose. This kind of intimate approach is exactly what I’d call an agile way to working through our current challenges[…]
Forgetting the Money: 10 step framework to harness true project value
The way we approach financial project value is broken. It’s largely a collection of guesswork, inaccurate numbers and top-down maintenance. As a result, too many projects have failed, are struggling, and nearly all could be improved to find true value. For the past year, we’ve been working on a Project Accounting Framework to change this.[…]
Panel event – How to Get on a Board hosted by NSW Young Chartered Accountants
Dina Gofman is a lover of the arts and always wanted to support the industry in a much more significant manner. Being an accountant by trade, Dina wanted a calculated and direct impact, and so several years ago when the opportunity to join the Board of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) came[…]
Project Accounting framework
"Forgetting the Money" is now available in ebook format to help project professionals embrace their financial project value
PAA Founders
Dina Gofman
