Get Paid or Go Home: Managing Non-Payment Risks and Preserving Claim Rights
Jun 29, 2010 8:15am ‐ Jun 29, 2010 9:30am
Credits: None available.
Focused primarily on legal issues and practiÂcal solutions to avoid claims, as well as honing in on fundamental risk evaluation and management, this session will discuss:
- Contract terms you can't live with, but can't live without
- How to make them "show you the money"
- Lender/owner/contractor liability for improper advances
- 50-state review of lien and bond claim rights
Google-licious: How to Find Anything Online
Jun 29, 2010 8:15am ‐ Jun 29, 2010 9:30am
Credits: None available.
Google is the most utilized search engine on the Internet. Millions of people use it daily to find almost everything. However, billions of information-rich Websites make finding the information you need even more arduous. Suited for all levels, this session (back by popular demand) will demystify how to use various search tools to find what you need in a timely fashion. While Google will be the primary focus, advanced search features from other search engines will also be discussed. After participating in this session, you will be able to:
- Understand the 10 critical techniques of effective Web searching
- Identify 7 Google tools beyond the stanÂdard search box
- Recognize how and why search results are returned
- Create a customized Google home page with current information from your favorÂite Websites
Managing Surety Challenges in the Great Recession
Jun 29, 2010 9:45am ‐ Jun 29, 2010 11:00am
Credits: None available.
This interactive discussion with four top surety industry executive's will discuss trends, concerns, and topics relevant to CFMA members regarding the surety industry and surety bonds. It will include surety company and broker perspectives on market conditions that affect contractors.
Practical Tax Strategies that Enhance Your Bonding Capacity
Jun 29, 2010 1:00pm ‐ Jun 29, 2010 2:15pm
Credits: None available.
Session attendees will learn about the use of:
- A captive insurance company to minimize risk and transfer wealth
- Aggressive defined benefit plans to shift income and defer taxation
- Employee stock ownership plans to leave the corporation in a potentially tax-free mode
- Accounting methods to defer income recognition
- Multiple entities to defer taxation
Retooling Your Competitive Strategy in Turbulent Times
Jun 29, 2010 1:00pm ‐ Jun 29, 2010 2:15pm
Credits: None available.
This session will cover:
- What strategic planning is and why it's always important
- Why traditional planning methods may be too little, too late
- Critical inputs for sound competitive strategy
- Keys to effective planning, and more importantly, effective plans
- How the mighty became obsolete - the good and the bad
- Execution - the essential business fundamentals
Innovative Approaches to Project Performance Security Risk
Jun 29, 2010 1:00pm ‐ Jun 29, 2010 2:15pm
Credits: None available.
Some of the topics covered in this session include:
- Construction globalization is driving industry change
- Public Private Partnerships (also called 3-P, PPP, or Triple P)
- European model of project finance
- Alternatives to performance bonds
- Subcontractor default insurance alternatives in the marketplace
- Reinsurance
- Liquidated Damages
Enabling the Mobile Workforce Panel
Jun 29, 2010 1:00pm ‐ Jun 29, 2010 2:15pm
Credits: None available.
This panel will discuss:
- Getting the right tools in the hands of field personnel
- Accuracy in the field equals accuracy in the office
- Today and the future
Preparing for New Accounting & Reporting Changes that Affect Contractors
Jun 29, 2010 2:30pm ‐ Jun 29, 2010 4:30pm
Credits: None available.
This session will review the impact of new accounting and reporting standards on construction contractors that will become effective in 2010 and beyond. A "plain EngÂlish," non-technical discussion of the new standards (including practical examples) will help you understand and implement them. Some of the topics that will be covered include:
- Latest standards issued by the FASB and IASB
- Revenue recognition
- Leases
- Going concern
Health Premium Strangulation? A Solution
Jun 29, 2010 2:30pm ‐ Jun 29, 2010 4:30pm
Credits: None available.
Learn about a new risk management stratÂegy to help contractors reduce healthcare costs without eliminating benefits or shiftÂing costs to employees.
- Root causes
- Unrecognized soft costs
- Action plans
- Program analysis and expectations
New Ethics Compliance Requirements for Federal Contractors
Jun 29, 2010 2:30pm ‐ Jun 29, 2010 4:30pm
Credits: None available.
The current economic climate has led more contractors to enter the federal contracting arena; but, they may not be familiar with the associated ethical requirements. Session highlights include:
- Why the Feds have stepped up investigations
- What the new compliance laws require
- How contractors trip upon compliance
- The benefits to corporate officers of strong compliance programs