What are the benefits of certification? Do you meet the eligibility requirements? What is the best way to prepare? What is required to maintain my certification? The answers to these questions and more will be answered during this session. Learn firsthand from your peers about the certification process and how achieving the industry’s only accredited certification for CFMs enhances your individual career and practice development for CPA firms.

*Session is not available for On-Demand CPE

Do you want to be seen as an industry expert? Are you looking for more industry credibility? This session will highlight ways to gain expertise, learn new skills and further your career by getting involved with CFMA. CFMA members will share how their involvement with CFMA had an impact on their careers, sharpened their skills and gave them industry exposure.

*Session is not available for On-Demand CPE

Did you know that your role as a construction financial professional should include benchmarking?

This is a vital strategy to understanding how your company compares with the industry and its peers.

This session will explain the key ratios that you should follow to ensure that your company remains profitable, as well as identify possible financial danger signs.

Any discussion about a construction company’s drive to profitability must include CFMA’s Financial Benchmarker, an online resource that provides you with the opportunity to benchmark your company against the industry.

In addition to offering nearly 200 data points, including the key ratios that are important to construction financial managers, the Financial Benchmarker includes data on 103 industry segments, including three key major contractor categories, Best in Class data and information on 22 types of contractors.

CFMA’s Financial Benchmarker can allow you to develop strategies to become “Best in Class.”

This session will also provide a sneak peek at the 2021 Financial Benchmarker results, as well as a review of the highlights of CFMA’s Management Strategies survey.

Do you want more accurate AND visually appealing analytics? This introductory session from a CFM, for CFMs, will dive into what a database is, teach you how to understand your data structure, and show you how to improve or build better reporting systems. This is a hands-on session that includes an Excel file you will work on to write queries and perform data analysis.

This session will also be available for On Demand CPE credit in the new year.

What can you do as a leader to foster a culture of continuous innovation? Some of the answers may surprise you. Come join us for an interactive session.

This session will also be available for On Demand CPE credit in the new year.

Service contractors face a unique set of challenges and opportunities compared to the rest of the construction industry. In this talk, we'll discuss all of the opportunities in the service industry to leverage machine learning, remote assistance, connectivity to the field, hardware and software automation for service management and how it can all help drive a more profitable service business.

In a volatile Construction industry, service can be the recurring revenue stream that gets many contractors through toughest of times. We'll explore how the use of technology can further enhance this competitive strength.

This session will also be available for On Demand CPE credit in the new year.

From business email compromise (BEC) to ransomware - cybersecurity is top of mind in every organization. The FBI estimates that U.S. businesses have suffered over $2 billion in fraud over the last 4 years in email attacks alone. We will explore current trends of the most common cyber attacks and provide real world solutions that can be applied by any organization.

This session will also be available for On Demand CPE credit in the new year.

The impact of the ongoing pandemic has varied massively by industry. While some industries have been effectively shuttered, some have been deemed essential. However, even essential status has not been a guarantee of smooth operations. This session will focus on the impacts of the novel coronavirus-induced crisis on heavy/highway contractors. It will also detail what contractors can expect once this public health crisis is over.

This session will also be available for On Demand CPE credit in the new year.

The tumultuous and foundation-shifting events of the last year intensified stress for individuals and organizations jolted by the impacts of unprecedented change and unrelenting uncertainty. Leaders are now called upon to deepen individual and collective capacity for coping with the unexpected and learn sustaining skills to not only stay afloat but to dare to cultivate ease, balance and to thrive.

There is deep humanity in learning to Cope with the Unexpected.

And an ROI. Research shows companies investing in the resilience and coping strategies of their leaders and teams outpace and out-innovate the competition. These strategies bolster every measure of our personal well-being as well as enhance decision-making, problem-solving, creativity and innovation.

After Neil Pasricha’s wife left him and his best friend suddenly took his own life, he crash-landed in an empty downtown bachelor apartment. Just twelve months later, he was working directly for the CEO at Walmart, running the International Academy of Digital Arts and Science’s “Best Blog in the world”, and had just published The Book of Awesome which stormed the New York Times bestseller list and sold over a million copies. The lesson was clear: resilience, change, and growth can come from times of challenge. This inspiring talk is for anybody looking for simple practical ways to lift performance to new heights. In Neil’s case, he realized before life could change, he had to change. Leadership ultimately comes from within. When company execs would ask him “How did you get so happy?” he’d share the secret is to “Be happy first” and let the mindset you cultivate ultimately enable your success. Neil’s presentation leaves audiences with five clear tools they can use to achieve their biggest goals. (Past clients include: Uber (marketing), Momenta (bioscience execs), University of Texas (students and faculty).

*Session is not available for On-Demand CPE