Clinical Trial Financial Management: A Research Field Guide

Most clinical research professionals learn trial finance one issue at a time. They know the protocol, the sites, the vendors, the timelines, and the meetings. The money behind the work often stays in the background until a forecast changes, an invoice stalls, a payment does not match the work performed, or closeout takes longer than expected.Clinical Trial Financial Management is a field guide for the financial side of clinical trial work. It is written for clinical research professionals who need to understand how trial money moves through a study without becoming accountants, contract attorneys, or billing specialists.The book follows the financial path of a study from procurement and budget assumptions through site costs, vendor costs, pass-throughs, forecasting, accruals, variance review, change control, governance, and closeout. It explains how assumptions become budget risk, how financial signals appear during study conduct, why forecast movement is different from approved change, and how closeout depends on evidence, ownership, and records.It is written for clinical trial project managers, CTMs, CRAs, budget specialists, site managers and directors, startup teams, vendor managers, CRO and FSP teams, finance partners, and sponsor clinical operations leaders.This is meant to be a practical book. Readers should come away better able to see what changed, what supports it, who owns the next step, and which record needs to carry the decision forward.

Pages: 110, Paperback, Independently published