Seminar to address job quoting in current economy.
Press Release Summary:
Scheduled for July 16, 2009, PMA's seminar, titled "Pricing Jobs for Today's Economy," will teach standardized methods for costing and quoting jobs for metalforming companies. Topics will include cost standards, price standards, accounting considerations, activity-based costing, quality control, capital budgeting overview, and how to price jobs in global market. Speaker for event is Allen Berger, partner at Blackman Kallick Bartelstein LLP in Chicago, IL.
Original Press Release:
Seminar to Address Job Quoting in the Current Economy
CLEVELAND, OH - June 3, 2009 - The Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) will present a seminar on July 16, 2009, in Cleveland, OH, to help metalformers accurately determine costs and prices for manufactured products.
The seminar, called Pricing Jobs for Today's Economy, is designed to teach standardized methods for costing and quoting jobs for metalforming companies. Topics include cost standards, price standards, accounting considerations, activity-based costing, quality control, capital budgeting overview, and how to price jobs in a global market.
The speaker for this event is Allen Berger, partner at Blackman Kallick Bartelstein LLP in Chicago, IL. Berger teaches cost accounting to major national and local metalforming groups and at universities and other professional groups. He is the author of The Businessman's Guide to Management and Profitability.
Developed by PMA's Technical Seminar Committee, the program is designed for owners, presidents, managers, estimators, engineers, salespeople, CEOs, CFOs, accountants and all others responsible for costing and quoting jobs.
For more information on the Pricing Jobs for Today's Economy Seminar and other PMA technical seminars, webinars, conferences and roundtables, visit www.pma.org/register or contact Deanna Nwosu at 216-901-8800 or dnwosu@pma.org.
PMA is the full-service trade association representing the $91-billion metalforming industry of North America - the industry that creates precision metal products using stamping, fabricating, spinning, slide forming and roll forming technologies, and other value-added processes. Its nearly 1,100 member companies also include suppliers of equipment, materials and services to the industry. PMA leads innovative member companies toward superior competitiveness and profitability through advocacy, networking, statistics, the PMA Educational Foundation, METALFORM tradeshows and MetalForming magazine.
