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Viewpoint, CFMA Partner on Benchmarks

Construction Equipment

Viewpoint and the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA) announced a joint endeavor to provide in-depth visibility into important financial, project, and industry benchmarks to help contractors more reliably deliver projects on time and on budget. Viewpoint Analytics, delivered as…

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Construction Budgeting Resource for Arizona

Carol Hagen

Construction company budgets are heavily weighted to the salary and compensation plans of their employees. Whether it’s the chief estimator, accountant or IT director, knowing what the going rates are in your area can help you budget and ultimately attract the best talent to your construction firm.

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Where Does Your IT Budget Go?

Carol Hagen

According to an MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research Study, the average firm spends 71% of their IT budget on running current systems and some blow as much as 80% of their budget keeping the status quo. What if you could reduce this to 50-60% of the IT budget? .

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Arizona Sales Tax Prime Contracting Examples for 2015: How to Receive Automatic Updates

Carol Hagen

of Revenue; David James, FNF Construction at the CFMA luncheon The Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA) Valley of the Sun Chapter recently hosted a TPT Changes Panel Discussion of the new hybrid sales tax system going into effect January 1, 2015. December 10, 2014 11:30-1:30pm Arizona Builders Alliance Office (Tucson).

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Essential Construction KPIs to Improve Profits and Productivity

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Is it over or under budget? Using budget as your primary indicator of performance is a lot like calculating the calories of a cake to assess its healthiness after it’s been baked. Using a budget as an indication of a project’s success may not give a team enough actionable insights about possible changes that need to be made. .

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DD# 85: Digital Technology Revolution in the Construction Industry

Cassell Construction Estimating

According to a recent study conducted by JBKnowledge (in partnership with CFMA and Texas A&M University ), “over 30% of construction companies surveyed said that their 2014 IT budget as a percentage of 2013 corporate revenue (not building volume) is less than 1%.” Furthermore, company size did not affect IT budget allocation.

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Arizona Construction Salary Survey Says…

Carol Hagen

The Arizona Construction Salary Survey provides you with the employee compensation benchmarks for budgeting and data for best practices during your salary negotiations. The actual reported LinkedIn recruiting usage in the survey were 8.7% for the field workers, 17.4% for office personnel and 12% for management and executives.

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