Business Principles for Landscape Contracting / Edition 3

by Steven Cohan

Overview

Business 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 productivity
• Professional development
• Economic sustainability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415788205
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/05/2018
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

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 Emeritus Professor 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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Structuring for accountability
2. Budget development
3. Profitable pricing
4. Estimating
5. Financial management
6. Project management
7. Financial ratios
8. Software applications
9. Managing human assets
10. Productivity basics
11. Creating a lean culture
12. Professional development
13. Bottom-line leadership
14. Economic sustainability

Appendices

Index

Editorial Reviews

'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.

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