Includes index.

Practice in interior design and how to establish one -- Interior design as a profession -- Divisions of the profession -- Business formations -- Location and nature of the business -- Securing essential counsel and assistance -- Carrying a job through and charging for it -- Initial contact with the client -- Analysis of scope of services -- Letters of agreement -- Confirmation of contract proposals -- Methods of determining fees and compensations -- Approach to the flat fee -- Other job cost factors in setting fees -- The client's budget -- Estimation and control of the budget -- Purchase orders -- Client's inventory and billing control -- Billing and collecting -- Sales tax -- Special requirements of nonresidential work -- The nonresidential market -- Initial client contact in nonresidential work -- Nonresidential fees and compensations -- Nonresidential letters of agreement -- Nonresidential estimates and procedures -- Special factors, forms, and techniques -- The interior designer as a product designer -- Relations with trade sources -- Theory, objectives, and methods of recording time -- Insurance -- The client's job book -- Contract breakdown -- Other working forms -- Basic elements of bookeeping and accounting for interior designers.

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