What Are the Most Successful Meeting Topics

What Are the Most Successful Meeting Topics? You Gave Us the Answers!

In response to numerous inquiries from chapters regarding successful meeting topics, we compiled information from the faxback questionnaire sent to chapter presidents in April 2006. For further details on any of the following information, please contact the respective chapter(s) directly or Mike Molaro at CFMA Headquarters.

Most Successful Meeting Topics

Albuquerque--IT Update

Berks-Lehigh--Pennsylvania Sales and Use Tax—Everything You Wanted To Know

--Employee Relations Roundtable

--People and Performance—Finding and Keeping the Best For Your Company

Birmingham--Current Trends in Construction

Bluegrass--Strategic Planning and Benchmarking

--Technology Updates

--Legislative/Tax Law Updates

Capital Region--Succession Planning

Central Arkansas--Cash Management and Lending Vehicles

Central Florida--Lien Law Update

--Health Insurance

Central Indiana--Motivational Speaker

--Panel Discussion

Central Ohio--Human Resource Issues

--Leading Organizational Change

--Strategy’s Aim: Leverage, Productivity, and Profitability

Central Pennsylvania-- Joint Meeting with Keystone Chapter of ABC

--Annual Scholarship Golf Outing

--Job Site Visit of PA TurnpikeBridge

Central Texas--A Future Look: The Effect of the Growth in Austin on the Construction Industry

--Check Fraud: Prevention and Recovery

--New Margin Tax

Central Virginia--Business Valuation of the Construction Company

--Tax Update

Charlotte--Technologies Update

--The Role of the CEO in the New Millennium

--Joint Meeting with the American Subcontractors Association of the Carolinas

Chicago--Annual Economic Update

--Technology Showcase

--Sales and Use Tax Update

Coastal Bend--Bonding

--Worker’s Compensation

--Banking Options—Short-Term Investments

Colorado--Highway Expansion in Colorado

ConnecticutValley--Contractor Controlled Insurance Programs/Owner Controlled Insurance Programs

--Maximizing Your Surety Relationship

--Prevailing Wage Law

Dallas/Ft. Worth--Technology-Related Topics

--CFMA Financial Survey Presentation

--Discrimination in the Workplace

Delaware--Accounting Software Purchasing

--White Collar Crime

--Consumer Health Care for Mid-Size Employers

Fox RiverValley--Hiring and Appraising the Performance of Executives, Office Staff, and Field Employees

--Value Stream Mapping and Lean Construction

Georgia--Overview of ASPs (Application Services Providers)

--Construction Web Tools—An On-Line Working Demonstration

--Financial Issues Facing Professional Sports

Greater Cincinnati--Sharpening Management Practices and Corporate Performances

--Computer Fraud

Greater Detroit--FBI White Collar Crime

--Joint Venture

--Bonding/Insurance Markets

Greater Pittsburgh--Executive Defense Tactics (Self Defense Training)

--Annual Dinner with City Mayor

--Terminating Employees: How to Fire Right

Greater --Sub-Guard vs. Surety Bonds

WashingtonDC--Maryland’s 3% Witholding Law on Out-of-State Contractors

--OCIPs and CCIPs

Greater Wichita--Human Resource Topics

--Deferred Compensation

Honolulu--IRS White Collar Crime

--FBI Cyber Crime Related to the Construction Industry

--Project Labor Agreements

--OCIPs

Houston--Economic Outlook & Construction Trends

--Texas Department of Transportation

Inland Northwest--Regional and Local Economic Update

--Legislative Update

--Sales Tax Update

Iowa--Identity Theft

--Annual Golf Outing

--Tax Update

Kansas City--Roll-Ups in the Construction Industry: Joint Meeting with AGC Chapter of Builders Association

Kentuckiana--The Economy and Construction

--Insurance Update

Knoxville--Magic and Money

--Recent Road Construction in West Knoxville

Lansing--CFO/CEO Roundtable

--Sales Tax and Use Tax Issues

Last Frontier--Brown Bag Lunches (No Speaker, Just a Topic w/Open Discussion)

Long Island--Surety Marketplace

--Banking Marketplace

Massachusetts--Massachusetts Lt. Governor Speech

--Legal Roundtable

Middle Tennessee-Scholarship Dinner Meeting

Milwaukee--“Best Practices” Panel Discussion

--Open Roundtable Discussion

Mississippi--Shortage of Young People in Construction Industry

Nebraska--Lien Laws

-- NebraskaSales Tax

Niagara Frontier--Cash Flow Roundtable Discussion

--How to Handle an OSHA Inspection

--Informational Program on the Region’s Major 10-Year Construction Initiative

Northeast Florida--Annual Economic Outlook

--Lien Law Update

--Energy Addict Motivational Speaker

Northern Indiana--FMI Half-Day Seminar on Marketing/Training Your People

--Lien Law Seminar

Northern Nevada--Workers Compensation

--How To Keep Good Employees

--Succession Planning

Northwest Ohio--Ohio Use Tax

--Mock Trial

--Workers’ Compensation

OrangeCounty--Local Region Economic Forecast

--Payables Panel Discussion

--Insurance/Bonding

Piedmont--Baseball Stadium Job Site Tour

--Inexpensive Technology Tools

--Controlling the Cost of Unemployment

Philadelphia--Surety Executive Roundtable

--GreenBuilding

Portland--FBI White Collar Crime

--Succession Planning

--COBRA Compliance

Puget Sound--Tax Update

--Doctors On Call

--Golf Tournament

Quad Cities--Iowa and Illinois Sales and Use Tax Issues

--Imaging Software for Contractors

Rhode Island--Golf Outing

--Non-Financial Seminars

Sacramento--Hi Tech Crime Force Presentation

--Economic Forecasts

--Major Project Information (Disaster Projects/Major Accomplishments)

SaginawValley--Technology

--Office Fraud

--Healthcare Costs

San Antonio-- Economic Outlook

--Succession Planning

--Cash Management

San Diego--Annual Economic Outlook

--Employment Law

--Communication Between Project Management and Accounting

--Relationship is the Key

San Francisco--Does Your Thinking Limit Your Success?

--Ethics in the Practice of Law—What? Lawyers Have Ethics?

--Employee Benefits from Two Perspectives

--State of the Construction Industry

Silicon Valley--Mechanic’s Lien Law: How to Protect Your Rights

--Public Works: Avoiding the Pitfalls

--Collections: A Panel Discussion

Siouxland--Job Site Visit

SouthCentral--Louisiana Sales and Use Taxes

Louisiana--LSU Football Stadium Expansion

--Panel Discussion on Construction Accounting Software Systems

--Emergency Preparedness

South Carolina--Keeping Your Workforce Legal (Problem of Illegal Aliens Working in U.S.)

Southeast--Sales Tax Updates

Louisiana--Emergency Preparedness

South Florida--Integrating Technology with Management: Bridging the Gap Between the Field and the Office

--Proactive Financial Leadership: Staying Competitive and Controlling Costs

Southwestern--Joint Meeting w/AIA on Michigan Construction Lien Laws

Michigan-- Joint Meeting with Local HR Chapter on Ethics in the Workplace

St. Louis--Tax Updates—When Tax Laws Change

--Political Speakers

--Jobsite Tour

TampaBay--Lien Law Update

--Worker’s Compensation Insurance Updates

--Technology Topics

Tennessee--Power of Pivot Tables

Valley--Lien Laws—Overview

--Document Imaging for the Construction Industry

Twin Cities--“CFMA Day”

--Dealing with the Media on Your Job Site After an Accident

Triangle--Economic Update

--Lien Laws

--Projected Cost at Completion

Tri-State Indiana--Financial/Economic Development Update by Mayor

Valley of the Sun--Job Site Tour/Luncheon of Cardinals New Football Stadium

--Annual Executive of the Year Banquet

Western New York--Western New York Economy

--CEO Night

--Annual Jobsite Tour