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You need the 2008 Multi-Office Firm Survey if…
- You’re the president or CEO of a multi-office firm and you want to set realistic goals for office profitability based on actual industry performance data
- You’re the CFO, controller, or accounting manager of a multi-office firm and you want to put an end to disagreements over accounting methods AND overhead allocations
- You’re a branch office manager and you want to see how your compensation, perks, responsibilities, and background stack up to those of your peers
- You’re a regional manager and you want to find out how other firms are tackling challenges regarding information technology and sharing work across offices
- You’re the COO of a multi-office firm and you want to find out how other firms just like yours are handling complicated organizational structure issues
- You’re the marketing director or human resources director of a multi-office firm and you want to find out which marketing, HR, and other services are most important to provide to branch offices
Even if none of these applies to you, if your firm is even thinking about opening a new branch office or closing a current one, you don’t want to take another step without seeing these survey results!
If you’re a firm leader, CFO, COO, regional manager, or branch manager in a multi-office architecture, engineering, planning, or environmental consulting firm, you’ve got a number of management issues to think about. How are firms just like yours handling branch office challenges? Find out! ZweigWhite’s 2008 Multi-Office Firm Survey of Architecture, Engineering, Planning & Environmental Consulting Firms is your complete guide to branch office management issues. Whether you’re a firm leader in the headquarters office or you’re a regional or branch office manager, this book has the answers you need to ensure branch office success.
With the 2008 Multi-Office Firm Survey, you’ll get information on what other firms just like yours have done with their branch offices, what they say the branch office recipe for success is, and what to do with a failing office. From branch office financial performance and accounting practices, to marketing and information technology, to human resources and recruiting, this book covers it all. And we get both sides of the story—headquarters’ and branch offices’—to make sure you get the full scoop.
The information covered in this comprehensive report includes:
Accounting methods: Do firms use the office profit center or the office cost center accounting method? Or do branch offices do no accounting at all? Get the data on which systems firms use—and why. Specific comments from both headquarters and branch office managers on why they think each system is best are included.
Office financial performance: Find out if firms are allocating corporate overhead to branch offices and if this affects the office’s bottom line. Use data on net service revenue, profits, and costs for branch offices to set goals in your own firm.
Information technology: Having the ability to communicate with the headquarters is a major factor in determining a branch office’s success. What kind of technology are other firms using to stay in touch? Do all multi-office firms have a WAN or a VPN? Do they give all employees remote network access and voice mail?
Marketing: Learn which marketing activities are performed in branch offices and which are left to the headquarters staff. Ten different types of marketing activities are covered in this section. Also get information on how marketing costs are allocated to branch offices.
Branch office managers: Two chapters are devoted exclusively to branch office managers themselves. Get the statistics on everything from office managers’ work habits, billing rates, and chargeability to their compensation and perks. If you’re in the headquarters office, find out if you’re paying your branch office managers enough…or too much. If you’re a branch office manager, find out how you stack up!
All this and much more, including ratings of headquarters’ services to branch offices, ways to facilitate sharing work across offices, success and failure of branch offices, and office facilities, are included in the 2008 Multi-Office Firm Survey. We guarantee your satisfaction—get your copy today!
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