Description
Book SynopsisBusiness Principles for 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 prod
Trade Review
'Business Principles of Landscape Contracting has been a valuable supplement to our curriculum. While our students earn a minor in Business Management, Dr. Cohan's excellent text helps them apply what they learn in their business courses to the Green Industry.'
Phil Allen, Certified Landscape Professional, Brigham Young University, USA.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
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- Structuring for accountability
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- Budget development
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- Profitable pricing
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- Estimating
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- Financial management
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- Project management
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- Financial ratios
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- Software applications
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- Managing human assets
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- Productivity basics
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- Creating a lean culture
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- Professional development
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- Bottom-line leadership
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- Economic sustainability
Appendices
Index
