funding for crucial projects and to become fully integrated into the organization. This is a guide designed to teach facility managers the ropes of finance and bugeting. It explains how to: understand the essential concepts of facility work programmes 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; and create an information system and database that ties directly into the budget.

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