Business Principles for Landscape Contracting

Business Principles of 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. 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; andEconomic sustainability. 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

Cohan's excellent text helps them apply what they learn in their business courses to the Green Industry.' Phil Allen, Ph.D., Certified Landscape Professional, Brigham Young University, USA. 'Business Principles of Landscape Contracting has been a valuable supplement to our curriculum. While our students earn a minor in Business Management, Dr

Steven Cohan earned his Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University. He is currently a Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park Maryland where he serves a Program Director for the Landscape Management Program. His course instruction includes:Commercial Principles of Landscape ContractingEnvironmental HorticultureInternship SeminarGreen Roofs and Urban Sustainability Seminar. His diverse professional career encompasses research biolog

fatkidking said Five Stars. I got this book for school and was surprised at how well it reads.. Five Stars Perfect!!