PRESENTED FACE TO FACE
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Option 1: North Lakes Hotel on 12 March 2025
(7 AM to 2 PM)
Option 2: Gainsborough Greens Golf Club Pimpama on 10 April 2025
(7 AM to 2 PM)
*Ticket price includes refreshments on arrival, morning tea and lunch, and your training material.*
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MIND BLOWING VALUE !!!!!!!!
Even if you SLEEP through our training, you will still walk away with...
A customised Accounts Receivable Escalation Procedure (AREP)
A step-by-step procedure to be implemented by your team (complete with email scripts) to get you paid.
Payment Claim Template
Easy to use, professionally laid out Payment Claim template that guides you along the steps of BIFA compliance.
Debt Recovery Triage Flowchart
When the pasta hits the fan, pull out your quick reference flow chart and triage your next steps.
Bonus Resources
QLD BIFA Non-business Day Calendar;
Email templates responding to baseless reasons your builder isn't paying you;
Memorandum template listing 12 questions to ask your Trade Credit Insurance Broker (before you buy insurance).
AND WE FEED YOU!
An Accounts Receivable escalation procedure
DONE WELL
will increase your cashflow, and reduce your debtor ledger. Professionalism and predictability is the key to a long and healthy relationship with your builder.
Jason Audsley Bio
"At 15, I discovered a passion for working with wood and set my sights on becoming a carpenter and finished my trade. Over the years I graduated into project and contract management because I loved solving what seemed like impossible problems.
A couple of decades working alongside builders and developers in commercial management roles I got exposed to the mechanics of the Security of Payment laws. After a few dust ups at adjudication, I learned the tricks and traps builders and their lawyers use to get out of paying subbies their hard-earned money and prop up their bottom line.
Just before I turned 50, I decided it was time to make a bigger impact. So, I sold my ’71 Corvette to finance going back to school, earned my law degree and set out to level the playing field for hardworking subcontractors everywhere by starting Construction Claims and Disputes – a business dedicated to getting subbies paid on time, everytime without battling the builder."
- Jason Audsley
Michelle Cirson Bio
"I was a builder's CA while I was studying law, and I used to be one of those snotty nosed CAs cutting the guts out of subbie claims with the flick of a pen. Subbies on my watch went broke, and I spent years doing adjudication responses for builders helping them avoid paying subbies.
Why would I tell you this? Well, if I was able to be influenced by my employer to do things that didn't align with my values, then every staffer in every building company can be too.
When I finished law school I went to work for a law firm, and within a week subbies from my prior jobs started calling asking for help getting paid. In almost every instance, it was an admin blunder that was stopping them from being able to enforce their payment claims.
Frustrated with the lack of common sense in the legal system, I founded Tricks of Your Trade in 2016, to help subcontractors manage their builders' contracts and get paid using the resources and expertise in our Subbies' Toolbox.
Because we wanted to do even more to exclusively help subbies get through life unscathed, last year I opened my own law firm, Subcontractor Legal.
In this face to face training, I will be spilling the beans on all the baseless reasons I used to avoid paying subbies as a builder's CA, and how you can use BIFA to avoid them working on you."
- Michelle Cirson
Consider the following facts:
of adjudication applications by subcontractors are kicked out on trivial admin compliance issues!
Builders have been BRAGGING that they cover their entire accounts department's wages using unclaimed subbie retentions!
Your chances of avoiding backcharges are 40% BETTER when you have an accounts receivable escalation procedure!
5 BIFA blunders that STOP subcontractors from getting paid
REFERENCE DATE ISSUES
How many times have you seen your reference date written into your builder's contract as "by the 25th of each month for work done to the end of the month"? Well, if you did that, your claim would likely be invalid, because of a reference date issue.
We elaborate in depth on this issue during training - including the simple admin hack we use to fix the problem.
PAYMENT CLAIM COMPLIANCE
What you include in your Payment Claim will make or break your right to use BIFA for debt recovery. For example, did you know that you can't include an amount under a separate contract in a payment claim, but you CAN attach multiple invoices to one single email and the email together with all its attachments can constitute a compliant payment claim?
Also, you can't include any claim for work done past your reference date...those are just three of 12 payment claim compliance blunders we commonly see cross our desks.
PROPER SERVICE OF THE CLAIM TO THE BUILDER
Even if you have previously sent your invoices and been happily paid ten times before, if you don't properly address and serve your payment claim, there is a good chance some smarmy lawyer for your builder will argue improper service.
Even if your adjudicator decides your claim was properly served, you will inevitably be drawn into arguing over a diatribe of legal jargon, all of which should have zero bearing over whether or not you should be paid for the work you have done.
MISCALCULATIONS
Did you know you can get kicked out of Adjudication if a miscalculation on your payment claim results in an inconclusive amount requested for payment?
AND WORSE: it will blow your mind how many payment platform software templates are INVALID under BIFA, because they don't conclusively request one single amount for payment. We will show you what we have found wrong with the mainstream ones.
PAYMENT PLATFORMS/ PAYMENT APPS WITH INVALID PROCESSES
If you are using payments software, you desperately need to know the three main ways builders are using payments platforms/apps are leading subcontractors into submitting non-compliant/invalid payment claims under BIFA.
COME TO NORTH LAKES
12 March 2025 at North Lakes Hotel (Best Western)
7 AM to 2 PM.
COME TO PIMPAMA
13 March 2025 at Gainsborough Greens Golf Club
7 AM to 2 PM.
