Year End Starts Before December

Every year, contractors find out in January what they should have known in November. But by then, the retention isn't getting released before February, change orders will remain unsigned, and cash you are counting on to close out the year won't be there. This session is about finding out problems now. What you expect to collect and what project records support are rarely the same number, and the difference usually comes down to a few tweaks you can still make if you do them now: incomplete pay apps, unapproved change orders, missing lien waivers, preliminary notice deadlines, and paperwork that doesn't back up the billing. Josh Luebker (SPM, The Construction CFO) and Amy Houk (National Lien Services & RCS Preliminary Lien Services) will walk through actual project scenarios from various sides of painting the financial picture and the lien-rights right now. You'll learn how to target where your year-end AR is and what you can do about it. You'll learn how to: Know what you can realistically collect before year-end Find what's holding payment up Make the call while you still have options Format: 40-minute discussion followed by 20 minutes of live audience Q&A. Bring your questions. Your Speakers Amy Houk is President of National Lien Services and RCS Preliminary Lien Services, helping contractors protect their payment rights before a problem turns into a write-off. Josh Luebker is President of SPM, The Construction CFO, and author of Control: The Construction Financial Operating System. A former master electrician and commercial PM, Josh helps subcontractors find the operational problems hiding behind their financial ones. Built for owners, presidents, and operators of subcontracting and self-performing GC businesses who'd rather fix it in October than explain it in January.