The Facility Manager's Guide to Finance and Budgeting

David Cotts (Alexandria, VA) worked for 22 years with the Army Corps of Engineers, and later managed the World Bank facilities. Ed Rondeau (Norcross, GA) is director of global operations and learning for the International Development Research Council. . He is the author of The Facility Management Handbook

"a thorough primer with real-world financial knowledge specifically tailored to use in a facility management context." -- Chief Engineer

Just what I needed ApricotMoon I don't really write reviews on books, however, our department was in need of something that would provide easy to use principles for budgeting in facilities. This book will take me a long way in terms of knowing everything I need to know about facilities budgeting and financing. I also loved the slew of diagrams and statements and actually am going to be implementing a few things from their book! I came into facilities blindly,. Five Stars Danny D Lane great book. "Five Stars" according to limcheekian. A good book for any Project manager!

This is a guide designed to teach facility managers the ropes of finance and bugeting. These days facility managers not only have to fix and maintain the company, they also have to sell their department to senior management in order to win funding for crucial projects and to become fully integrated into the organization. It explains how to: understand the essential concepts of facility work programmes 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; and crea