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Designing Your Business Gordon T. Kendall

Designing Your Business By Gordon T. Kendall

Designing Your Business by Gordon T. Kendall


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Summary

Serves as a reference for basic business and legal concepts. This book aims to make students savvy business people as well as creative interior designers. It explores business organisation, and legal and ethical issues that arise in the practice of interior design. It also explains business finance and accounting.

Designing Your Business Summary

Designing Your Business: Strategies for Interior Design Professionals by Gordon T. Kendall

Designing Your Business brings the expertise of a business and legal professional to the practice of interior design. Accordingly, the book serves as a strong reference for basic business and legal concepts. It aims to make students savvy business people as well as creative interior designers. In an accessible tone, the text explores business organisation, and legal and ethical issues that arise in the practice of interior design. Business finance and accounting are also explained by showing the necessity of adequately defining a designer's scope of services and methods of charging. The textual explanations are augmented with chapter exercises and projects that simulate the actual, day-to-day work issues faced by interior designers. The book's hands-on approach and engaging interactive pedagogy bring relevance to the topics of law and business and show interior design students how their business decisions can facilitate their professional practices.

About Gordon T. Kendall

Gordon Kendall has taught various courses at Southwest Texas State University. An attorney with an MBA degree, he combines his legal and business knowledge with his teaching experience to prepare interior design students for their careers.

Table of Contents

* You and Your Work -Introduction to Professional Practices -Starting Your Work -Working Ethically * You and Your Business -Understanding Law and Your Business -Planning Your Business Finances -Managing Your Business -Promoting Your Work * You and Your Clients -Defining the Services You Provide -Charging Your Clients -Managing Your Client's Project -Defining the Client Relationship * You and Your Resources -You and Your Relationship with Vendors -You and Your Relationship with Service Providers * You and Your Career -Becoming a Pofessional -Planning Your Career TEXT FEATURES * Strategic approach that guides readers in planning their careers with their personal goals and competencies in mind * Information tailored to the specific business needs of residential and contract designers * Three types of activities for each chapter: development of personal business strategies, an ongoing exercise progressing through the stages of a residential interior design project, and case studies of contract design projects * Instructor's Guide includes recommended course outlines, and suggestions for teaching each chapter, and tests

Additional information

GOR013504452
9781563673269
1563673266
Designing Your Business: Strategies for Interior Design Professionals by Gordon T. Kendall
Used - Like New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20050801
500
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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