Final Exam - BM1

Determine the Model for starting your design

firm: A few firms Kohn Pedersen Fox being one of

the best known--got off the ground due in large part

to the exceptional sales skills and client

relationships of one or more of the founders.

• Sponsor

• .Supersalesperson

• Golden Handshake

• Spin-off

Determine the offices organized under foreign

laws:

Allows the parent company to maintain direct

control over operations in a different location

• Representative Office

• Regional Headquarter

• Branch Office

• Regional Operating Headquarter

Which is not an accounting report used in a

company?

• Profit and Loss

• Declaration of Asset

• Cash Flow

• Balance Sheet

Determine the offices organized under foreign

laws: A specialized type of office that not only

oversees and manages regional operations but

also provides specific services such as logistics,

technical support, and shared services to affiliates,

subsidiaries, or branches in the region.

• Regional Headquarter

• Representative Office

• Branch Office

• Regional Operating Headquarter

Determine the factors that affects the industry of

architecture: Most competitive firms have already

transitioned to BIM modeling. But that's just the

start. The incorporation of 3D virtual reality (VR)

experiences via fully immersive VR headsets,

wherein the client can walk through a full scale

building even prior to the start of construction, is

already possible.

• Technology

• Demographics

• The architect’s role

• Revenue

Determine the type of business organization:

Easy and inexpensive to set up and operate

• Sole Proprietorship

• Corporation

• Partnership

• Stock Corporation

.Determine the type of business organization:

Can raise significant capital by issuing shares.

• Partnership

• Corporation

• Sole Proprietorship

• Stock Corporation

Determine the factors that affects the industry of

architecture: The buying of smaller or even equal

sized firms by other firms in an effort to get a

foothold in either a new building type or geographic

area has been an active trend for the past several

years.

• Revenue

• The Architect's Role

• Technology

• The Shrinking Marketplace

Determine the Model for starting your design

firm:
More typically, the founders of a new firm

spend their early years rising to senior positions

below partner level in their former firms, and while

there build strong personal reputations and

reference lists, as well as a modest base of

"moonlight" clients too small for their former

employers. Then they break away.

• Supersalesperson

• Spin-off

• Sponsor

• Golden Handshake

Determine the factors that affects the industry

of architecture: Does architecture school truly

prepare one to work as an architect upon

graduation?

• The Architect's Role

• Revenue

• Technology

• Academia versus workplace