Support the Audit and Stand Up for Your Rights

A recent CBCA case (CBCA 3407) brings up a couple of critical issues relevant to small government contractors. To abridge,…

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Overhead Part One

  Do you really need this pool? One common headache small business contractors create for themselves is adopting too many…

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Next time DCAA looks at your payroll system you might share this and inquire if they have checked their own pay….

In a recent audit by the DOD OIG (http://www.dodig.mil/pubs/documents/DODIG-2015-176.pdf) of the Department of Defense’s Payroll Systems (along with DOE, DHHS,…

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Dear Auditor, Before you ask for my driver’s license could you read this?

Just got off the telephone with a client in Georgia where the DCAA office requested the contractor to email copies…

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Legal Fees and the Government Contractor

Years ago when I first began my work in finance and accounting I came to hate suspense accounts. For those…

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