CONM 4100: Construction Business & Finance

A series of videos covering all aspects of managing business taxes.

A video course on the types and effects of taxes in relation to small and medium-sized businesses.

Information on business taxes and energy credits in Massachusetts.

Information on accounting methods, excise taxes, energy credits, small business taxes, and worker classification.

This brief video describes the calculation of money in the future.

This chapter also covers the effect of inflation and taxation on interest rate, life cycle cost analysis, and payback period analysis. References and exercises included.

The Laubach-Williams (“LW”) and Holston-Laubach-Williams (“HLW”) models provide estimates of the natural rate of interest, or r-star, and related variables. Their approach defines r-star as the real short-term interest rate expected to prevail when an economy is at full strength and inflation is stable.

Provides several overnight money market lending rates. See especially the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) which is a vital index for setting commercial mortgage rates.