The Facility Manager's Guide to Finance and Budgeting

Leaky faucets and cracked pavement arent the only demands on a facility managers time and energy. These days they also need top-notch financial skills--to sell their department to senior management to win funds for crucial projects to become fully integrated into the organization. Sadly most facility managers lack even fundamental financial skills. The Facility Managers Guide to Finance and Budgeting is the first primer designed to teach them the ropes quickly concisely and with minimum pain. The book explains 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.