What's The Difference Between Work Break Down Structure and Control Accounts?

Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)

George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica

What's The Difference Between Work Break Down Structure and Control Accounts?

Posted: Sep 10, 2017 7:52 AM

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Ryan Andrews Senior Specialist Project Manager| Celanese Corporation Cincinnati, Oh, United States

Are you talking about Code of Accounts? CoA is just the numbering system used to uniquely identify each of the packages of the WBS.

Posted: Sep 10, 2017 9:54 AM

Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada

Control Accounts are usually the nodes in a WBS at a level higher than the Work Packages (the lowest level of your WBS). Control Accounts provide the "right" level of detail for tracking progress and assessing performance when reporting to your stakeholders as Work Packages (on large projects) will be too low a level of detail and the first or second level of your WBS (deliverables or sub-deliverables) are too high a level of detail.

Kiron

Posted: Sep 10, 2017 10:26 AM

Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada

A work breakdown structure may contain one or more control accounts.

A control account is set up in one work breakdown structure.

Posted: Sep 10, 2017 5:19 PM

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What's The Difference Between Work Break Down Structure and Control Accounts?

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