The handbook of choice for professional interior design practice -- now with companion CD-ROM!

Professional Practice for Interior Designers provides all the essential skills needed for planning and maintaining a thriving interior design business, presented in the clear, easy-to-follow style. From creating a business plan to launching a promotional campaign to setting up a computerized accounting system, everything you need to launch and sustain a successful interior design practice is here.

This edition is completely current with the latest business practices and features a host of new practice aids:

• Companion CD-ROM includes a trial version of professional practice software, business forms, numerous short articles, plus additional information and resources
• New examples help you manage the latest challenges and implement the latest business practices
• A new chapter devoted to strategic planning explains this important business concept in easy-to-understand language for students and professionals
• Brief "what would you do" case studies in each chapter challenge you to respond to ethical issues faced by today's interior designers

Contents

Part I: The Professional of Interior Design

1. Interior Design as a Profession
2. Professional Preparation
3. Ethics and Professional Responsibility
4. Legal Responsibilities

Part II: Getting Started

5. Personal Goals
6. Professional Options

Part III: Establishing an Interior Design Practice

7. Creating a New Interior Design Practice
8. Advice and Counsel
9. Business Formations
10. Business Legal Filings and Licenses
11. Preparing the Business Plan

Part IV: Growing the Practice

12. Practice Organization and Management
13. Strategic Planning
14. Human Resource Management
15. Legal Issues of Employment
16. Basic Financial Accounting
17. Financial Management

Part V: Marketing and Business Development

18. Marketing Interior Design Services
19. Promoting the Interior Design Practice
20. Additional Promotional Methods
21. Selling Strategies
22. Design Presentations

Part VI: Project Compensation and Agreements

23. Project Compensation and Fees
24. Preparing Design Contracts
25. Product Pricing
26. The Sale of Goods and the Uniform Commercial Code
27. Warranties and Product Liability

Part VII: Project Management

28. The Project Management Process
29. Trade Sources
30. Contract Documents and Specifications
31. Contract Administration
32. Contract Administration: Delivery and Project Closeout

Part VIII: Looking Ahead

33. Getting the Next—or First— Job
34. Landing the Job

Index

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