'Taylor Swift Is an Economic Phenomenon': CE's Q1 2024 Economic Update and Forecast
By Grace Calengor
March 28, 2024
On March 27, Construction Executive presented its "2024 Q1 Economic Update and Forecast," hosted by ABC Chief Economist Anirban Basu. If you...
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Financial Reporting Software Is Only as Good as the People Operating It
By Richard Sghiatti
March 5, 2024
To try to solve the challenges of construction financial reporting, contractors often take the step of obtaining or upgrading accounting sof...
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Waging War: Why Ignorance of Wage Theft Is No Excuse
By Matt DeSarno
February 14, 2024
In my 20-year FBI career, I faced off against gang members, drug traffickers, international terrorists, cybercriminals and corrupt politicia...
Finance
Business Risk
Attracting Lenders With Modular Construction Methods
By Marcia Kaufman
February 7, 2024
Investors nationwide are looking for quality assets, placing their trust in safe investments that are deemed worth taking a risk in today’s ...
Business Development
Finance
Grabbing a Lifeline
By Eric Brody
January 25, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of the real-estate industry, financial challenges can arise unexpectedly, threatening the viability of projec...
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Trust Is Not a Strategy When It Comes to Finding Fraud
By Jennifer Walton
December 4, 2023
While the punch list to complete a construction project may seem long, the truth of the matter is that the punch list for protecting that pr...
Finance
Business Risk
Most Common Reason Contractors Get Denied for a Loan—and How to Avoid It
By David Mitchell
November 3, 2023
Small businesses are the lifeblood of the United States economy. They account for 99.9% of all businesses in the country and have been respo...
Finance
'Cash Flow Is King'
By Grace Calengor
October 1, 2023
The world is a volatile place. What can small businesses that form the deep foundation of the construction industry do about it? While they ...
Finance
Off the Books—and Back On
By Alexander Lombardi and James Wiedemann
August 11, 2023
In the rapidly evolving world of financial accounting, recent shifts in lease accounting standards have created tectonic movements in the in...
Finance
Business Development
Eyes on the Prize
By Salvatore Schibell
June 1, 2023
This has been a decade of unusual circumstances that no one could have predicted. Runaway inflation, materials shortages, supply-chain disru...
Finance
Business Development
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