There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a project meeting when someone puts up a cost-to-complete slide and the numbers don't reconcile with what the GL shows. Engineers look at the accountants. Accountants look at the engineers. The project manager looks at the ceiling. And somewhere in the background, there's a budget variance that has been quietly building for six months — because the systems weren't talking to each other, the commitment register wasn't being

A full deep-dive into how capital projects move through governance, SAP, and the accounting lifecycle — for mining finance professionals. Every capital project in mining follows a predictable arc: someone identifies a need, money gets approved, things get built, and eventually an asset lands on the balance sheet and starts depreciating. Simple in theory. In practice, the workflow spans governance committees, procurement systems, construction management tools, SAP modules, and