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Using a Dashboard to Steer Your Company on the Right Path Webinar

Words: Mason ContractorsThe Mason Contractors Association of America (MCAA) will present “Using a Dashboard to Steer Your Company on the Right Path” on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at 10:00 AM CDT.

As a business owner or manager, you cannot afford to get buried in the weeds of the daily financial transactions. Instead, you need to have a financial dashboard that provides an early warning system for your financial stability. Monitoring and measuring performance metrics is critical to your survival and success.

Learn how to create an executive dashboard and explore what numbers you need to track on a regular basis. Explore the different the Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to help keep you on a course for profitability.

Session objectives:
  • Correctly measure and track margins, by profit center, to make good business decisions
  • Determine true labor costs to better manage projects
  • Uncover direct job costs hiding in your overhead costs to better manage margins
  • Create sound financial statements to correctly measure profitability


Mason contractors registered for Masonry Certification will receive 1.00 credits in the Ethics & Business Practices discipline upon completion of this course.

This webinar is free to all attendees. Register for “Using a Dashboard to Steer Your Company on the Right Path” at www.masoncontractors.org/live.

Visit www.masoncontractors.org/live for more information and to view a full schedule of MCAA’s Live Webinar Series.
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