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## [Fixed Price Contracts and Cost Accounting Requirements](https://sql.sympaq.com/blog/firm-fixed-price-contract-audit-exposure)

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Sometimes government contractors say to us, 'Our government business is firm fixed price, so we’re not subject to audits.' While fixed-price contracts may not require DCAA incurred cost audits, you ...[ Read the Blog](https://sql.sympaq.com/blog/firm-fixed-price-contract-audit-exposure)

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## [The DCAA Incurred Cost Submission – Your Government Contract 1040](https://sql.sympaq.com/blog/dcaa-incurred-cost-submission)

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## [DCAA Audit Backlog](https://sql.sympaq.com/blog/dcaa-audit-backlog)

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With a heavy emphasis on pre-award surveys, ostensibly to ensure that a government contractor has a compliant cost accounting system in place, the DCAA has become seriously backlogged in trying to ...[ Read the Blog](https://sql.sympaq.com/blog/dcaa-audit-backlog)

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