How to Build Better Relationships with Vendors through Electronic Payments
With electronic payments, your vendors can get paid faster and more accurately with excellent remittance details. Your team and vendors also can go online to see the status of payments, giving you greater visibility into your processes. Additionally, ePayments reduce your susceptibility to late fees.
Construction Executive’s 2018 Economic Forecast: Confidence Is the Key
See what 2018 holds for the construction industry and the economy as the United States recovers from natural disasters, tackles its aging infrastructure problems and addresses major workforce shortages.
Using Virtual Design Construction to Win More Business
Reserve your seat to become your company’s local expert on VDC! Learn ways to help your company implement processes for success and overhaul existing ones.
Technology Cost Allocation: Demystifying the Process
As contractors continue to embrace technology, and the amount they spend on it increases, the question of how to properly allocate the cost of that technology has become much more prevalent.
2020 Construction Economic Forecast
This presentation supplies detailed discussions regarding, global, national and regional economic performance using the most current data available. Special attention is devoted to certain aspects of economic life, including the performance of the financial, labor, real estate and construction markets.
Construction Executive’s 2021 Construction Economic Forecast
Back to the Future: Industry Hopes for a Return to Normalcy This presentation, themed as a tribute to 1980s movies, will focus upon the state of the economy nine months into the COVID-19-induced economic crisis. Special attention will be given to real estate and construction dynamics, labor market performance, state and local government finances, financial market […]
Construction Executive’s 2021 Q1 Construction Economic Update and Forecast
Anirban Basu and the Chamber of Data Anirban Basu, chief economist for Associated Builders and Contractors, will demystify the ever-changing economic landscape and provide an update following the 2021 construction industry forecast in December. Basu will share the latest statistics, unemployment and labor figures, in addition to his exclusive (and always entertaining) economic outlook. During […]
Five Tips to Protect Your Construction Business Against Financial Fraud
According to the 2019 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey, 82% of organizations reported fraud incidents in 2018, and 43% experienced direct financial loss as a result. The construction industry isn’t exempt—56% of fraud cases are directly related to billing and check/payment, and the median loss reached approximately $250,000 in more than 40 fraud cases. […]
2019 Construction Economic Forecast
Momentum Will Persist For Several More Quarters, Contractors Should Stay Vigilant as Longer-term Inflationary Pressures Build Be the first to find out what economic trends will directly affect your bottom line in commercial and industrial construction next year. On Dec. 12, Construction Executive’s 2019 Construction Economic Forecast will be presented by Anirban Basu, the chief […]
Developing Business Strategies to Help Contractors During Difficult Times
For most of us, 2020 did not go according to plan. Contractors have been tasked with finding new ways to run their businesses, putting finance teams at the center of this “new normal.” There are key data points that your business should focus on to not only monitor for market conditions, but also to gain […]