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ProjectWorks – Associate Invoicing

Brayden Dixon – Assistant Accountant

I would like to thank all associates once again for the continuous feedback received in using ProjectWorks for timesheets and invoicing. If you have any ideas for improving ProjectWorks, don’t hesitate to email me.

We request where possible using ProjectWorks daily to record timesheets and expenses, so that this information is ready to go at the conclusion of the current month.

As CT Management Group follows a monthly invoicing process, I would ask that all associates please notify me through email that you have made timesheet and expense entries on the last day of that month in which you have been working.

Associate Survey Results

Thank you to those Associates who completed the 2022 Associate Survey.

The Survey results will assist us in understanding your level of satisfaction in fulfilling assignments with CT Management Group. With Associates from a wide interstate geographical area, communication is always a challenge in meeting everyone’s expectation. This report provides a summary of information gathered from this year’s survey as feedback to Associates.

Introduction

The 2022 Associate Survey has resulted in a 34.74% response from Associates, which is an increase from 2021’s response rate of 30.95%.

Associates were asked to respond to 20 questions in a variety of question formats including scaling from 1-5 (1=low 5=high).

Associate Contribution – Malcolm Lewis

Down, down, profits are down

You may be interested to know that FinPro (the Local Government peak body representing the finance professionals) is currently surveying members regarding any initiatives their Councils have implemented to generate income from alternate revenue streams. FinPro are facilitating the survey following a request from Rural Councils Victoria (RCV).

Interesting if the survey is motivated by the current profitability of Victorian Councils that continues its downward spiral. The following graph is adapted from Victorian Auditor General’s Office data and shows profitability hit negative territory during the 2019-20 year and continued south for the 2020-21 year. For the technically minded, the graph is the adjusted underlying result across all 79 Victorian Councils.

Notable Projects

Roslyn Cox – Proposals Coordinator

The importance of maintaining a Pipeline of Work is a high priority of the Company and currently our Pipeline stands at 7.8 months.

Major Projects that have been won over the past three months include the following:

6034 – Department of Environment Land Water & Planning Asset Assessment Program 6071 – Comensura Pty Ltd – Colac Otway Shire Principal Project Manager – Harbour Precinct 6094 – Hume City Council Subdivision Coordinator 6135 – Comensura – Murrindindi Shire Council Project Engineer 6103 – Southern Grampians Shire Council Cox Street Redevelopment – Project Manager 6101 – Wangaratta Rural City Council Acting Finance Manager 6113 – Comensura – Murrindindi Shire Council Project Manager 6111 – Ballarat City Council Finance Support

New Associates

CT Management Group, Directors and Staff welcome the following new Associates who have joined the company over the past three months.

Andre Van Heerden (VIC) – Project Manager

Andre joined CT Management group in May 2022 with an extensive background of working in road construction, concrete structures, residential subdivisions, residential developments, water infrastructure, and bulk earthworks. Andre’s experience includes local government, private sector road construction projects for VicRoads (DOT) on the Western, Borung, Henty, Princes and Calder Hwy.

Robert Brown (NSW) – Building Condition Assessment

Robert joined CT Management Group in June 2022 and has over 45 years’ experience within the building consultancy field which has been gained working in both major client side and self-employed advisory consultancies.

Retirement

CT Management Group, Directors and Staff thank the following Associate for their service to the company.

Campbell McKenzie (VIC) – Financial Services

Campbell announced his retirement in July 2022 after 9 years as an Associate with CT Management Group. We appreciate the contribution that Campbell has made servicing 16 Clients during this period.

Do you know we have office space available?

CT Management Group have a meeting space available at the Geelong Office that our associates are welcome to utilise.

Features include internet, whiteboard, TV for video conference calling and an endless supply of coffee.

If you need space to meet with clients or get your work done, give us a call on 1300 500 932 to book our meeting room.

COVID-19 and Vaccinations

Covid variants seem to keep on coming at the moment, so all Associates are encouraged to be vaccinated and carry your vaccination certificates with you at all times whilst on CT Management Group assignments.

A Message from the Managing Director – March 2022

A message from the Managing Director

Strategic Priorities 2022/23

It’s that time of the year we begin to review our strategic direction and begin the process of developing an Annual Budget.

As we move from the uncertainty around the pandemic, we are confronted with the possibility of a world war, ever changing climate, a booming housing market and inflation about to rise – I think the notion of “business as usual “is an historical concept!

We have completely reviewed the business throughout the pandemic moving many of our services to a digital format and will continue this with the revision and extension of our IT Digital First Strategy.

ProjectWorks – Associate Invoicing

Brayden Dixon – Assistant Accountant

I would like to thank all associates for the successful transition to online timesheet and expense logging through ProjectWorks. It’s been great to hear feedback from many of you that assists to improve our processes.

One of the areas yet to be improved is the lack of a notification system ProjectWorks has yet to implement.

Because we follow a monthly invoicing process, I would ask that all associates please notify me through email that you have made timesheet and expense entries on the last day of that month in which you have been working. This will allow me to send a recipient created invoice to those of you that have notified me first that you may have only worked until the middle of the month.