Business Principles for Landscape Contracting

By Steve Cohan

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041578820X
• ISBN13: 9780415788205
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.