Financial Management – NAHB Certificate Course (in-person or virtual option available)
48 HOUR ADVANCED REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED WITHOUT EXCEPTION
Advanced registration is required. If you plan to attend in person you will need to bring your laptop and charger, no exceptions. The in-person location is Dallas Builders Association (5816 W. Plano Parkway, Plano, TX 75093).
Improve your understanding of financial reports and learn how to use analytical tools that increase profit potential and add important data to decision making. This course for building professionals explores many tools that will allow you to take your company’s financial temperature and other vital signs and choose corrective measures to assure continued business health.
Learn how to start with business plans, budgets, and goals, informed by your local business potential, and choose the most profitable paths to move forward. Learn about specific financial tools, including ratio analysis tips, pricing formulas, labor burden calculators, and slippage calculators, which will help you make money on all projects. Finally, we will demonstrate the value and use of pro forma analysis to predict profits and cash flows.
What to expect from this course:
A current and accurate business plan is important for a successful business. In this course, you will review a sample business plan and analyze financial results using ratios.
Identifying personal and business goals and quantifying the effects to your financial planning.
This course will help you to assemble pro formas to create an operating budget that incorporates personal and business goals.
Identify ways to effectively manage a business’s financial results and respond to changes.
Instructor: Tag Gilkeson, CAPS, CGA, CGB, CGP, CGR, CMP, CSP, GMB, Master CGP, Master CSP
Tag Gilkeson has been in the Real Estate and construction industry for over 20 years. He has focused on increasing his skills through education for the last two decades. This has culminated with him having completed three college degrees which include two within this industry. He has one for Construction Management and another one in Architectural Drafting and Design. His learning didn’t just stop there, he attained more certification through the NAHB than anyone in the entire country, 11 in total.
Tag, along with his Architectural Design Firm, have been recognized both locally and nationally. In 2018 his company, Tag & Associates, LLC, was awarded the “Best Curb Appeal in the 1 Million to 1.5 Million Dollar” category by the Dallas Builders Association ARC Awards. He now designs homes in all price ranges and various square footages with his largest exceeding 15,000 square feet.