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Accounting Basics for Home Performance Contractors:
Transforming Financial Statements into Management Tools

Qualifies for 1.5 BPI CEU
Originally presented March 2, 2010

Audio/Video Recording
with Presentation Slides

 
Once registered, you will receive an e-mail with information on how to access post-event recordings and any other event material.


Discover how to leverage information from financial statements to enhance the accountability and profitability of your business. This session focuses on those aspects of the financial statement that are key to profitable day-to-day management of a contracting firm. Skills and insights that you will gain include:

• Developing your Financial Statement
• Departmentalizing your Financial Statement
• Using your Financial Statement for Pricing
• Developing and using Job Costs
• Calculating Breakeven
• Understanding Financial Ratios
• Forecasting and Budgeting

Hear a candid assessment from the president, sales vice president, and bookkeeper of a family-owned contracting firm that is learning to use its financial statements to drive management decisions.

Bonus! All registrants will receive an MS Excel workbook with financial statement templates of an example residential home improvement contracting firm with $1 million in annual sales that includes:

• Balance Sheet
• Break Even Worksheet
• Monthly Cash Flow Analysis Worksheet
• Sample Proforma

Who should attend? This web-based session is designed to be attended jointly by owners, senior management, accountant/bookkeeper staff, and other key employees with companies focused on Home Performance and other residential and small commercial remodeling, replacement and contracting services with annual sales of at least $500,000. Plan to bring together all the key players around one computer screen and a speaker phone for one registration fee. Can’t get everyone together at this date/time to participate? No problem, register anyway, participate live with those from your organization who can make it, and you will receive a video/audio recording link afterwards to share with others in your organization.

Welcoming Remarks: Dale Hoffmeyer, Team Leader, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
   

Dale Hoffmeyer is the team leader for ENERGY STAR® Home Improvement. He has over 20 years of experience at the Environmental Protection Agency in areas including home energy benchmarking, home performance, and HVAC installation.

Presenter: John N. Garofalo, John N. Garofalo & Associates
 

 

John Garofalo has 30 years of industry and consulting experience. Starting out at Southern Bell in the early 1970s, John began his dual career focusing on marketing and leadership development, with stints in sales and sales management, as well as serving as an instructor and manager for their Executive Learning Center. Throughout his career, John has leveraged these experiences serving as marketing manager for Lennox Industries, as general manager for an HVAC service business in Mobile, Alabama, as Operations Manager of GroupMAC’s Residential Group, and later as President for Encompass Residential Services. At Encompass, he was responsible for 35 acquired businesses generating $350 million in annual revenue and $35 million in free cash flow. John’s innovative marketing programs focused attention on building sales in the coveted maintenance and replacement markets. Interspersed throughout this career, John has served the HVAC and other industries in a consulting and leadership development capacity, clocking over eight years in this rewarding arena.

 

 

 

Registration fees:

  • FREE to BPI accredited contractors participating in the Northern Virginia Home Performance Program

  • $45 for all other BPI accredited or EGIA member contracting firms

  • $95 for others

Contractor Web Exchange fee includes unlimited access for anyone in your organization to presentation slides with an audio/video recording of the presenters and question-and-answer discussion. Full contact information for all presenter is provided so you may contact them directly to ask your own questions.



This Contractor Web Exchange is co-hosted by the Building Performance Institute and Electric & Gas Industries Association in support of Home Performance with ENERGY STAR.

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR (HPwES) is a program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to encourage homeowners to make energy efficient home improvements. The program depends on specially trained home performance contractors that complete a comprehensive energy audit and make energy efficiency recommendations. Participating contractors need both the technical skill and knowledge to improve home energy efficiency, and the business skills and quality management systems to succeed. Working with the Department of Energy, EPA is testing new strategies to help contractors succeed through better business and quality management. www.novahomeperformance.org

The Building Performance Institute, Inc. (BPI) is a recognized global leader, supporting the development of a highly professional building performance industry through individual and organizational credentialing and a rigorous quality assurance program. BPI works with building performance industry stakeholders to ensure that the professional bar for excellence in building performance contracting is established and maintained by creating and regularly updating technical requirements through an open, transparent, consensus-based development process. www.bpi.org

The Electric & Gas Industries Association (EGIA) is a non-profit organization that serves a over 2,500 installation contractors, regional distributors, product manufacturers and other trade allies delivering energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions to millions of homes and businesses. EGIA also delivers services on behalf of electric, gas, water utilities and municipalities, including financing, rebate program administration and rebate processing; contractor network management, training and certification; and sales channel development and support.  EGIA has facilitated the financing of over 40,000 residential and business projects valued in excess of $500 million, and has administered over $250 million in rebate payments. www.egia.com
 

Promotional consideration provided by:

Affordable Comfort, Inc. (ACI) convenes thought leaders in home energy efficiency to provide cutting-edge events focused on home performance, green building, and “house-as-a-system” training for building trades, housing groups, and program professionals. ACI’s vision is that every family has a home that is energy efficient, durable, comfortable, affordable, healthy, and safe. www.affordablecomfort.org

Efficiency First is organized so that the Home Performance Workforce can be represented in both National and State level policy conversations. Efficiency First is dedicated to retrofitting of America's homes, building the industry infrastructure to create jobs, and reducing energy consumption, carbon emissions, and our dependence on foreign oil. Efficiency First represents America's Home Performance Workforce, ranging from energy auditors and raters to contractors who are the front line of our climate battle, embodied in green-collar jobs from weatherization to HVAC. www.efficiencyfirst.org

Home Energy Magazine. 
Home Energy magazine’s mission is to disseminate objective and practical information on residential energy efficiency, performance, comfort, and affordability. It is the only magazine that thoroughly covers residential comfort issues from the only approach that really works, systems engineering. Learn More (PDF)

HVACReducation.net and GrEEnCollarEdu.net. HVACReducation.net, founded in 2000, provides access to complete, comprehensive and growing online education programs, recognized by the leading experts in the HVACR industry as the primary online education resource. Courses are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for the convenience of adult learners. Courses are guided by skilled industry professionals who maintain contact with each enrolled student. Quality education, student success, and exceptional customer service are the primary objectives. GrEEnCollarEdu.net is a service of HVACReducation.net. It is your source for comprehensive education and training programs that support nationally recognized standards from across the green building and green trades industries in areas such as building performance, renewable energy systems, green remodeling, insulation, air sealing, fenestrations, and the HVAC/R industry. HVACReducation.net and GrEEnCollarEdu.net

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