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This Recommended Pracice (RP) is brought to you as public service by AACE Internaional, the Authority for Total Cost Management.

The AACE Internaional Recommended Pracices are the main technical foundaion of our educaional and cerificaion products and services. The RPs are a series of documents that contain valuable reference informaion that has been subject to a rigorous review process and recommended for use by the AACE Internaional Technical Board.

AACE Internaional is a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional associaion serving the total cost management community since 1956. AACE Internaional provides its members and stakeholders with the resources they need to enhance their performance and ensure coninued growth and success. With over 8,500 members world-wide, AACE Internaional serves total cost management professionals in a variety of disciplines and across all industries. AACE Internaional has members in 87 countries. If you share our mission to “enable organizaions around the world to achieve their investment expectaions by managing and controlling projects, programs, and porfolios and create value by advancing technical knowledge and professional development”, then we invite you to become one of our members.

In addiion to this and other Recommended Pracices, here are just a sample of the products and services that AACE has to offer you:

Total Cost

Management®

Framework:

Total Cost Management is a systemaic approach to managing cost throughout the life

cycle of any enterprise, program, facility, project, product or service. AACE’s flagship publicaion, the TCM Framework: An Integrated Approach to Porfolio, Program and Project Management, is a structured, annotated process map that for the first ime explains each pracice area of the cost engineering field in the context of its relaionship to the other pracice areas including allied professions.

Visual TCM

Framework:

Visual TCM graphically demonstrates the integraion of the strategic asset management and project controls

process maps of the TCM Framework. The Visual TCM applicaion has been designed to provide a dynamic view of the TCM processes, from the overall strategy process maps to the mid-level processes and detailed aciviies. The processes are hyperlinked, giving the user the ability to move to and from related process maps and reference

material. This allows for the opimal effeciveness of understanding and using the process and sub-process in the context of and relaionship to associated sub-processes that share common strategies and objecives. Visual TCM allows the user to view and apply TCM secion-by-secion, at a sub-process or funcional level. Visual TCM is available to members at no extra fee.

Virtual Library:

Members receive free access to the Virtual Library, an online collecion of over 5000 complete technical aricles on virtually every aspect of cost engineering. Search

this extensive database and immediately retrieve the best techniques and potenial soluions to the problems confroning you and your organizaion.

Professional Practice Guides (PPGs):

Professional Pracice Guides contain the most worthwhile contribuions to the field of total cost

management. Comprehensive, well organized, and imely, each PPG is a collecion of selected aricles covering a paricular technical topic area or industry segment. The PPGs provide an excellent source of reference material and is a welcome addiion to any reference library.

Certification:

Since 1976, AACE has been cerifying individuals as Cerified Cost Consultants (CCC)/Cerified Cost Engineers (CCE); Cerified Cost Technicians (CCT);

Cerified Esimaing Professionals (CEP); Cerified Forensic Claims Consultants (CFCC); Earned Value Professionals (EVP); and Planning & Scheduling Professionals (PSP). In the midst of staggering business and economic turmoil, you need all the tools at your disposal to help shore up your career prospects. AACE cerificaion can help you and the organizaions that rely on you for help!

Online Learning

Center:

The Online Learning Center features modules based upon actual technical presentaions captured

at our Annual Meeings. Each recorded unit includes a live audio recording of the speaker synchronized to the slides accompanying the presentaion. Each unit includes the technical paper associated with the presentaion, and a downloadable audio-only version that you may play on your mobile device or iPod. Compleion of each unit earns 0.1 AACE recerificaion credits (i.e. 0.1 CEUs). An electronic cerificate of compleion will be atached to your profile.

Conferences:

AACE Internaional’s Annual Meeing brings together the industry’s leading cost professionals in a forum focused on learning, sharing, and networking. Over 100

hours of technical presentaions and an industry tradeshow that will challenge you to beter manage, plan, schedule, and implement technology for more effecive and efficient business pracices.

The Internaional TCM Conference is a similar event that is held outside of North America – complete with technical presentaions, seminars and exhibits.

Discussion

Forums:

The discussion forums encourage the exchange of thoughts and ideas, through posing quesions and discussing topics. They

provide a great means for networking and interacion with your peers. Paricipate anyime at your convenience and receive automaic e-mail noificaions on topics that are of interest to you. With several thousand users, if you have quesions or concerns about a technical subject, program, or project - the forums are a great resource for you.

Mentoring

Program:

Looking to gain more knowledge from an experienced professional or an opportunity to help another professional?

Included with your membership, AACE offers a comprehensive mentoring program for individuals interested in sharing knowledge with others or advancing their own careers to the next level.

Career Center:

AACE’s career center provides tools and resources for you to progress through your career.

Looking for the next

rung on the career ladder or to hire the talent necessary to take your firm to the next level? Job seekers, use our services to find your next job – post your resume, get e-mail noificaions of new job-posings, and more. Employers, post your current job-openings and search our extensive resume database to find your next star employee.

Salary and

Demographic

Survey:

Conducted annually, salary survey is a great resource for employers that want to gain a beter

understanding of the compeiive marketplace for talent and for employees interested in knowing how their compensaion compares with their peers in the profession.

Periodicals

Members receive a complimentary subscripion to the Cost Engineering journal, AACE’s bi-monthly professionally

peer-reviewed publicaion. It contains best-in-class technical aricles on total cost management related subjects.

It is published as both a print version and an online version.

Our bi-monthly digital publicaion, Source, focuses on AACE aciviies and items of interest to the total cost management community, with special features for our members.