Interior Design Management: A Handbook for Owners and Managers

by Christine M. Piotrowski

Overview

Most interior designers who own - or plan to own - their own firms are at a disadvantage because they lack formal business training. This book provides them with essential information on accounting, financial analysis, revenue operation, contracts, personnel issues and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471284314
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	11/11/1992
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	8.74(w) x 11.42(h) x 1.07(d)

About the Author

CHRISTINE M. PIOTROWSKI, currently based in Phoenix, Arizona, provides consulting services to interior designers on business practices. She is a former professor of interior design at Northern Arizona University and has more than twenty-five years of commercial and residential design experience. She has won the ASID/Polsky Prize twice and received honorable mention once. Her books include Becoming an Interior Designer, Designing Commercial Interiors, and Problem Solving and Critical Thinking for Designers.

Editorial Reviews

Picking up where her previous work (Interior Design Management left off, the author offers advice on managing and organizing the office--dealing with legal, financial, zoning, insurance, and tax matters; finances--basic accounting, statements, monitoring and reporting performance, and setting fees; operations; and marketing. Includes discussion of the Uniform Commercial Code and comes with 71 forms for use in firms of any size. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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