Cohan Business Principles for Landscape Contracting

3. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-84708-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten

Business Principlesfor Landscape Contracting, fully revised and updated in its third edition, is an introduction to the application of business principles of financial management involved in setting up your own landscape contracting business and beginning your professional career. Appealing to students and professionals alike, it will build your knowledge of financial management tools and enable you to relate their applications to real-life business scenarios. Focusing on the importance of proactive financial management, the book serves as a primer for students in landscape architecture, contracting, and management courses and entrepreneurs within the landscape industry preparing to use business principles in practice. Topics covered include:

Financial management and accountability
Budget development
Profitable pricing and estimating
Project management
Creating a lean culture
Personnel management and employee productivity
Professional development
Economic sustainability.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohan, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Berufe & Ausbildung
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements

Structuring for accountability

Budget development

Profitable pricing

Estimating

Financial management

Project management

Financial ratios

Software applications

Managing human assets

Productivity basics

Creating a lean culture

Professional development

Bottom-line leadership

Economic sustainability
Appendices
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Cohan earned his Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. His diverse professional career encompasses plant science research, entrepreneurship as an owner of a retail nursery, and executive management of botanical gardens. He is currently an EmeritusProfessor at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA,where he served as Program Director for the Landscape Management Program. His course instruction included Financial Applications for the Green Industry, Environmental Horticulture, Internship Seminar, and Green Roofs and Urban Sustainability Seminar.