Practice Management

About Practice Management

The Practice Management (PcM) exam focuses on managing an architectural office. The PcM division covers legal structures, risk management, financial metrics, and the regulations that govern the work environment. Ready to tackle business plans, staffing charts, and responses to RFPs? We’ll help you learn it all. Here’s how NCARB structures the PcM exam:

• Business Operations

  13-17 expected items, 20-26% target percentage

  • Assessing resources within the practice
  • Applying the regulations and requirements governing the work environment
  • Applying ethical standards to comply with accepted principles within a given situation
  • Applying appropriate Standard of Care within a given situation

• Practice-wide Delivery of Services

  14-18 expected items, 20-28% target percentage

  • Analyzing and determine response for client services requests
  • Analyzing applicability of contract types and delivery methods
  • Determining potential risk, reward, and impact of a project

• Finances, Risk & Development of Practice

  19-23 expected items, 29-35% target percentage

  • Evaluating the financial well-being of the percentage
  • Identifying practice policies and methodologies for risk, legal exposures, and resolutions
  • Selecting and applying practice strategies for a given business situation and policy

• Practice Methodologies

  11-15 expected items, 17-23% target percentage

  • Analyzing the impact of practice methodologies relative to structure and organization of the practice
  • Evaluating design, coordination, and documentation methodologies for the practice

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