Webinars

Lien waivers are crucial documents in the construction industry, serving as a safeguard for both subcontractors and general contractors. However, their unexpected arrival and complex requirements can often lead to payment delays and contractual complications. This webinar aims to equip construction finance professionals with the knowledge and tools to effectively manage lien waivers, avoid costly delays, and ensure on-time payment, every time.

Discover how artificial intelligence can reduce manual effort and data entry in processing inbound invoices enabling your valuable resources to focus on Higher value activities and reduce processing time and errors. This webinar will showcase how to use AI effectively in construction accounting.

Learn how to use acceptable accounting and reporting practices to your company’s advantage and familiarize yourself with sample contractor financial statements. This program will cover associated accounting issues, including revenue recognition, contract assets and contract liabilities, leases and interim reporting considerations, control and allocation methods for overhead, benchmarking and effective performance measures, classification of direct and indirect contract costs, and recent FASB pronouncements and exposure drafts.

Join us for an engaging session focused on the critical need for developing enterprise leaders in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry and learn effective steps toward reaching this goal. This webinar will explore the unique challenges and opportunities faced by professionals transitioning to executive roles within the AEC environment.

Has the Federal Reserve successfully engineered a soft landing? Or, is the confluence of geopolitical conflict, a presidential election, rising consumer debt levels, and still high interest rates conspiring to produce economic downturn in 2024? It is difficult to know whether 2025 will be a good year – but one thing is clear – it will be a very interesting one. This presentation will supply in-depth analysis of major factors shaping economic outcomes, including interest rates, global conflict, wage dynamics, business confidence, and demographics. It will then turn toward a forecast for the coming year, highlighting the major risks that economic stakeholders will likely encounter.

This webinar will cover post-election tax issues impacting the construction industry and insight into potential outcomes with the new administration. Attendees will gain an understanding of current tax and year-end planning and other practical considerations.

This webinar will highlight key trends and divergent findings from the 2024 Financial Benchmarker Survey with aggregate results of more than 1,200 construction companies. By covering key leverage, efficiency, liquidity, and profitability ratios, this webinar will help you discover the key performance indicators most relevant to contractors and learn how this data impacts operations and the overall company. Find out how CFMA’s Financial Benchmarker suite of products can improve your company’s financial forecasting.

For the first time, the 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention specifically references the intersection of suicide with substance use, misuse, and substance use disorder. This is significant as the country continues to grapple with the ongoing drug overdose crisis. By attending this webinar, during Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, you will gain practical skills and techniques for initiating ongoing conversations with children and young adults about the potentially deadly consequences of substance use and misuse.

This session will provide an accessible introduction to GPT models and explore their potential applications within the construction sector, specifically regarding accounting and financial practices. The presentation will uncover the fundamentals of GPT models, their underlying technology, and some of their known drawbacks. You'll also get a demonstrationpf a few use cases, such as automating the analysis of construction documents, providing practical applications for today’s construction professionals.

The Heavy Equipment Comparator (HEC) is a valuable product that tracks 32 KPIs in nine different categories to follow a company’s fleet results. The HEC can be used to benchmark your company's results to other companies in the Heavy/Highway industry and to identify areas to improve your fleet management. By attending this session, attendees will be able to design effective systems to track their metrics and gain insights into collaborating with their fleet manager.

Discover the potential consequences of business missteps and explore valuable lessons learned, and best practices to effectively mitigate risks in this webinar.  Dive into the top 10 mistakes frequently made by contractors and get a comprehensive examination of each one. Throughout this analysis, the presenter will extract valuable lessons learned from each mistake and offer practical advice on how to avoid these pitfalls. Here are the top 10 mistakes to be covered: Cash Flow Management, Inadequate Succession Planning, Underinvesting in Reporting Systems & Controls, No Accountability, Equipment Investment, Integrity Issues, Culture & Loyalty, Growth vs. Profitability Mindset, Not Valuing Professional Advisors Blind Spots

As a subcontractor, ongoing concern about financing your clients’ projects is paramount. You’re funding the job and doing the work before you’re paid — and getting paid isn’t easy. In fact, only 5% of subcontractors report being paid on time consistently, and the average invoice age in construction is 90 days — it’s time subcontractors buck the status quo. During this webinar, subcontractors will gain valuable insights and practical tips on how to improve their cash flow on projects. Learn the top five insider tips for getting paid faster and managing cash flow better on projects. With the knowledge gained, attendees can identify and address the main causes of payment delays, enhance their financial management skills, and ultimately improve their company’s bottom line

The experience modification rating (EMR or E-mod) can be intimidating and challenging for many, as it can have huge financial impacts on your company and prevent opportunities for potential business.

This webinar aims to give confidence to those individuals who would like to improve their knowledge and acumen around E-mod and workers compensation. Learn how to calculate a blended E-mod as well as how to respond to an E-mod request from a GC.

How confident are the key decision-makers in construction about the industry landscape, financial conditions, and economic trends? Join industry leaders as they discuss the Construction Financial Management (CFMA) December 2023 CONFINDEX survey results and what they mean for the construction industry. CFMA’s CONFINDEX is the only index survey that measures the confidence level of leading financial professionals in the U.S. commercial construction sector. Check out the full December 2023 CONFINDEX report at <insert link to report> to maximize your experience during this session.

This annual webinar will cover tax and year end planning considerations. Attendees will gain an understanding of current tax issues impacting the construction industry and gain insight into current matters being addressed by Congress. Attendees will also learn about changes in GAAP accounting and other practical considerations.