The Facility Manager's Guide to Finance and Budgeting

<p><strong>Written <em>by</em> facility managers for facility managers this book will turn your facility initiatives into strategic business components that make your department stronger and more productive.</strong></p><p>Leaky faucets and cracked pavement aren't the only demands on a facility manager's 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 and to become fully integrated into the organization. Sadly most facility managers lack even fundamental financial skills.</p><p>In <em>The Facility Manager's Guide to Finance and Budgeting</em> facility management experts David G. Cotts and Ed Rondeau explain how to: </p><ul><li>Understand the essential concepts of facility work programs and programmatic planning and budgeting</li><li>Develop and manage an annual expense budget then evaluate the results</li><li>Make financially sound go/no go decisions on projects requiring capital funding</li><li>Pinpoint significant cost-savings and cost-containment areas</li><li>Use unit-cost indicators to benchmark facility management initiatives</li><li>Create an information system and database that ties directly into the budget</li></ul><p><em>The Facility Manager's Guide to Finance and Budgeting</em> is the first primer designed to teach them the ropes quickly concisely and with minimum pain.</p>