What Government Contractors Need to Know about PTET
Understanding the rules and laws governing PTETs and various state rules, as well as GAAP guidance, can help make sure government contractors remain compliant and efficient.
Accounting System Compliance – Foundation for Success
An accounting system for government contractors is composed of a general ledger, unallowable costs, job costing, labor collection, indirect cost allocation, and billing. An accounting system does not equate to accounting software; it is the process, including written policies and procedures.
Strategic Costing and Pricing Fundamentals for Government Contractors
Government contractors have to understand the fundamentals of strategic costing and strategic pricing in order to make correct decisions that determine their overall profitability on a job.
Government Contracting Basics: Five Types of Government Contracts Including Risks, Pros and Cons
Learn more about these five types of government contracts presented in detail - including what they entail, their risks, and the pros and cons of each.
Accounting System Compliance Risk – Before and After Contract Award
Government contractors should perform an internal assessment of their compliance before an audit is performed and participate in the audit process to ensure a favorable result.
Idle or Not Idle? That is the Question
The pandemic and the resulting changes in employee work routines and locations have created a potential cost-allowability issue that many government contractors have not previously encountered – potential idle facilities and/or idle capacity.
So, You Think You Know Unallowable Costs?
Learn about unallowable costs and what determines a costs' allowablility. We also provide a listing of FAR and DFARS clauses that are considered to contain expressly unallowable costs subject to penalties.
Surveillance Survival – Responding to a Government Audit
Every few years, we reach out relative to the importance of a government contractors’ response to audits performed by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), the Department of Labor (DOL) or, for that matter, any other government audit function.
Strategic Material Handling and Major Subcontracting Indirect Rates
Government regulation requires costs to be classified as either a direct cost or an indirect cost. As we know, indirect costs, in the aggregate, represent the largest class of expense incurred on government contracts. Direct costs, by definition, are identifiable with a specific “final cost objective” while indirect costs are associated with common or joint cost objectives.
Labor Recording! Are you ready for an audit?
Labor recording is the basis for the valuing and allocating the efforts of you and your employees and a critical process for government contractors who depend on it for their product and services costing (read billing/cash flow) and pricing.