Identification: DPG1
Learn about the key data from CFMA’s Benchmarker and how it can impact your company. Learn and share Benchmarker best practices with your conference peers, and walk away with benchmarking techniques that can help you improve your company’s financial and operational performance. KPIs most relevant to contractors, including those related to liquidity, profitability, leverage, efficiency, and productivity Methods by which contractors may manage operations in order to improve financial ratios relied on by sureties and lenders. Understand how others are using the CFMA Benchmarker to improve their bottom line. CFMA's new online Financial Benchmarker tool for 24/7 benchmarking, reporting, and comparisons of your company's financial performance with others in the industry
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Identification: GS1
Focusing on the conscious choices we make every day that impact the lives of others, this eye-opening and heartfelt keynote details how to positively influence people in every imaginable way, regardless of position or status.
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Identification: B1
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An interactive mini-conference for both men and women. After the panel presentations, attendees will have the opportunity for Q&A with the speakers. Bring your comments, questions, feedback, and experiences to share.
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Identification: T1
Data crucial to operational efficiency and decision-making is often unstructured, scattered, or trapped within static documents. Many of these are paper documents managed manually, resulting in considerable money, time, and opportunity being wasted. This session will present a practical, comprehensive approach to capturing and analyzing the huge amount of data generated in all departments with ease and immediacy as well as how to leverage that data for powerful metrics and reporting to alert, enlighten, and inform the entire company.
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Identification: A1
With an improved economy and in the midst of an election year, the tax landscape is poised for change. Do you have the tools and strategies needed to keep more of your money? Attend this session to gain insight on ways to reduce your overall tax burden and understand IRS audit triggers. You’ll hear stories and learn strategies from a 20-year construction tax veteran and a former IRS attorney.
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Identification: S1
This interactive breakout session with a recognized technology expert on apps and solutions will focus on the various technologies and solutions that are being deployed by specialty contractors in the field. This includes stand-alone solutions that function without any integration back to the main office as well as some solutions that do (e.g., time card collection).
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Identification: L1
Our fast-paced and stress-filled schedules open the gate to allow people and circumstances every opportunity to “get our goat.” This session puts into perspective how your daily life intersects with people of diverse backgrounds, opinions and personalities. In this eye-opening session, you’ll discover how to avoid being robbed of the opportunity to perform at peak performance because of negativity.
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Identification: R1
From the underwriter’s perspective, discover how a construction company went from new submission, to new account, to a surety claim. After attending this session, attendees will be able to:
Identification: A2
This session will illustrate the evolution of key implementation concepts of revenue recognition supplemented with examples; expected topics of coverage include identifying performance obligations, measuring variable consideration, accounting for uninstalled materials, required footnote disclosures, and more. This session will also cover the new standard on leasing that is expected to be released in final form by early 2016.
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Identification: B2
The goal of most organizations is to have a robust workforce that supports the right people in the right positions as well as a set of systems and culture that keeps them excited to be there. However, the current reality for the construction industry is that there is not only an insufficient quantity of craft workers, supervisors, managers, and staff for available positions, but also that the industry may not be appealing enough to attract and retain the right talent.
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