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DCAA Identifies Audit Priorities. These priorities include looking at the costs going into business development versus marketing as well as travel expenses. Read the Blog

We get a lot of visitors to this web site from the search term 'DCAA Approved Accounting System.' So what exactly constitutes a DCAA Approved Accounting System? Find out why the answer to this ... Read the Blog

Reforms in late 2008 made prime contractors responsible for ensuring the adequacy of their subcontractor's accounting systems & procedures. If you are proactive in getting compliant, you will be ... Read the Blog

Spreadsheets are wonderful tools. However, if you are manually updating spreadsheets each accounting period with the same information and doing it more than once, you are doing it wrong. Find out how ... Read the Blog

Your “affordable” accounting software that seemingly worked just fine until you realize the cost savings of using shrink-wrapped accounting software that is not specifically designed for cost ... Read the Blog

Are you still using Quickbooks to calculate and allocate burdened costs for your government contracting business? You may need an upgrade! Here are 4 signs that your GovCon business is outgrowing ... Read the Blog

Recent guidance from DCAA suggests they may start disallowing certain indirect costs for the prime on contracts where subs are doing more than 70% of the work. If you have contracts that are ... Read the Blog

The Dept. of Labor has dramatically increased the number of auditors devoted to reviewing government contracts for Service Contract Act (SCA) compliance. Enforcement efforts will focus not only on ... Read the Blog

At first pass, this may seem like an odd combination of issues, but company culture has to be accounted for when changing accounting systems. Read the Blog