2013 No. 3 |
GL Cost Buried in Payroll Burden
Contingency Buried in Sub-Contracts
Manipulated Bid Packages
Captive Insurance Companies
Hierarchy of Documents
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2013 No. 2 |
Auditing Payroll Burden Costs
Payroll Benefits
Health Insurance
Vacation Pay and Other Time Off
Retirement Cost
Re-Rentals from Affiliated Entities
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2013 No. 1 |
Auditing Payroll Burden Costs
Payroll Insurance
Workers Compensation Insurance
General Liability
How Do I Know If An OCIP Is Right For Me?
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2012 No. 2 |
Auditing Payroll Burden Costs
Ignoring the Obvious
Charging for the Insurance Deductible
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2012 No. 1 |
Manipulating Bid Packages
When Self Performed Work Isn't Self Performed
You Think the GC Just Bought SubGuard
Should All Insurance Deductibles be Included in Fee?
What is Needed to Arrive at a GMP?
Retirement of a CCM Original - David Butler
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2010 No. 2 |
Profit Centers and Fee Enhancement
SubGuard
General Liability and Umbrella Insurance
Payroll Burden
Shifting Overhead Costs to Job Cost
Shared Savings
Early Completion Bonus
Self-Performed Work and Fee
Contractor Controlled Insurance Program (CCIP)
CCM News
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2010 No. 1 |
No End to Creativity
A Subguard Insurance Certificate
Allowance Reconciliation
The Fee is Just the Beginning
How Long?
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2009 No. 2 |
Further Perils of Allowing Self-Performed Work
Recruiting Charges
Problems with Allowing Fixed Hourly Rates for Salaried Employees
Another Reason Why We Are Concerned About Construction Managers Using SubGuard
When the Owner's Development Partner is Also the GM/GC
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2009 No. 1 |
Audit Concerns in a Shrinking Construction Market
Construction
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2008 No. 2 |
Is the CM's Total Fee Earned When Terminated After Preconstruction?
Auditing the Contractor's Sub Bids Prior to Agreeing to a GMP with a Shared Saving
Have You Agreed to Bonuses for CM Employees?
A Little Detail Never Hurts
You Can't Have Our Job Cost Reports
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2008 No. 1 |
What Do We Audit in a GMP Contract?
Some New CCIP Overcharges
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2007 No. 2 |
"Mutually Agreeable" Audit Firm
SubGuard and Payment and Performance Bonds
When is a Lease Not a Lease?
Impossible to Tell
Savings Sharing on Contingency?
Fee on Change Orders
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2007 No. 1 |
CCM Adds Experience
Should Lump Sum Agreements Within the GMP be Auditable?
Why Did We Ask for Labor Rates?
What Does Project GL Insurance Cost?
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2006 No. 2 |
Website Update
Contractor Controlled Insurance Program Cost
Sub Bids Are Not Accounting Records
Affiliates of Contractors Working for Subcontractors
Are You Paying Subguard and Sub Bonds?
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2006 No. 1 |
Are You Writing About Me?
Billing GL Insurance Upfront
OCIP Credits Need to Match Estimated Cost
Deductive Change Orders that Never Complete
Who Pays for Accelerating the Schedule?
Problems with Billing for Mobilization
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2005 No. 3 |
What Kind of Insurance is Reimbursable?
Shared Savings or Contractor’s Windfall?
What Insurance Are You Buying with Subguard?
Should Your Contractor Help You Prepare a Property Loss Claim?
You Asked About Subsidiaries not Affiliates
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2005 No. 2 |
Top Lists of Don’ts
Seen it All?
Can’t Rely on Policy Rates
So You Want to fix Payroll Burden Rates?
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2005 No. 1 |
What is the Contractors Incentive not to Overcharge
Two Faced Contractor Arguments
Should We Audit?
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2004 No. 1 |
Are Union Benefits Wages?
Are you Contracting with a Joint Venture?
Equipment Charged at Weekly Rates
Sick Leave - Actual vs. Allowed
Texas Payment and Performance Bond Rebate
Don’t Send Me the Backup
Should Contractors be Responsible for Allowance Overruns?
Additional Fee for Self-Performed Work
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2003 No. 1 |
Higher Contractor Insurance Deductibles
Final Accounting before Final Payment
Contradictory Exhibits
Rental Equipment Costs- Total Duration or Actual Usage
What do you mean by “Data Processing”?
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2002 No. 2 |
Be on Guard for Subguard
Subcontractor Change Orders Without Totals
Additional Fee for Self-Performed Work
Should Contractors be Responsible for Allowance Overruns?
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2002 No. 1 |
Change Order Pricing
General Liability Insurance and Fee
Recruitment Costs
Variable and Verifiable Cost
Payments Made Outside the Contract
Fix the Rate, It’s Too Hard to Audit
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2001 No. 1 |
Market Rate Payroll Burden
Defining Allowances
Defining When Pre-Construction Begins
Lease Construction Audits
We Don’t Have Any Apprentices
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2000 No. 2 |
Andersen Construction Impresses Again
Off the Record Insurance Settlements
Unit Rates and their Limitations
Should Your Contractor Have Auditor Approval Rights?
Should You Audit the GMP Before You Sign?
Related Parties
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2000 No. 1 |
General Conditions Costs Associated with Delay
Apprentices and T&M Work
No Backcharges to Subcontractors
Overstatement of Retirement Cost
Pre-Construction Audits
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1999 No. 1 |
Contractors Home Office Employees and Office Expense
Does Your Contractor Do a Good Job of Subcontracting?
Penalty for Audit Findings
Construction Cost Prior to Contract Award
Relocation Expense Limitation
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1998 No. 1 |
Self-Insurance Costs
Related Party Subcontractors
Negotiating from Strength
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1997 No. 2 |
Liquidated Damages – Uses and Limitations
Lump Sum General Conditions
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1997 No. 1 |
Deductive Fee on CO’s
Consultant Reimbursable Costs
Hidden Temporary Employees
Maintenance Contracts
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