Description

Written by facility managers for facility managers, this book will turn your facility initiatives into strategic business components that make your department stronger and more productive.

Leaky faucets and cracked pavement arent the only demands on a facility managers time and energy. These days, they also need top-notch financial skillsto sell their department to senior management, to win funds for crucial projects, and to become fully integrated into the organization. Sadly, most facility managers lack even fundamental financial skills.

In The Facility Managers Guide to Finance and Budgeting, facility management experts David G. Cotts and Ed Rondeau explain how to:

Understand the essential concepts of facility work programs and programmatic planning and budgeting

Develop and manage an annual expense budget, then evaluate the results

Make financially sound go/no go decisions on projects requiring capital funding

Pinpoint significant cost-savings and cost-containment areas

Use unit-cost indicators to benchmark facility management initiatives

Create an information system and database that ties directly into the budget

The Facility Managers Guide to Finance and Budgeting is the first primer designed to teach them the ropes quickly, concisely, and with minimum pain.

Author: David G. Cotts, Edmond P. Rondeau
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Amacom
Published: 05/27/2007
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780814401590
Language: English