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Fall 2014
May 07, 2024
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BCM 53500 - Construction Accounting And Financial Management
Associated Term: Fall 2014
Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain the use of various revenue recognition methods available to the construction company. 2. Explain the progress billing terms retainage and front loading and discuss the reasons for and against such practice. 3. Identify the accounts applied and their use when the percentage of completion method of accounting is applied. 4. Explain the difference between underbilling and overbilling, discuss why they occur and their impact on cash flow. 5. Apply the following financial analysis techniques to financial statements: line-item analysis, horizontal analysis, vertical analysis, use-source analysis, ratio analysis, cost-volume-profit analysis, and profit center analysis. 6. Prepare the budgeted income statement and develop rates for overhead and profit mark-up, exercise control over company cost, and prepare a cash plan. 7. Apply time value of money principles to various decision making tools when seeking company and project financing and the acquisition of capital assets.
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