Accounting systems and DCAA

Get your books ready for cost-type contracts: what makes an accounting system adequate, how the preaward survey works, how to keep timekeeping audit-proof, which costs are unallowable under FAR Part 31, and how to file your annual incurred cost submission.

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1. Why cost-type work needs an adequate accounting systemWhat changes when the government pays your costs instead of a fixed price, and who checks your books.2 min read · 5-question quiz
2. The preaward accounting system surveyWhat the SF 1408 review checks and how to prepare for it.2 min read · 5-question quiz
3. Timekeeping and labor chargingWhy labor records get the most scrutiny, and the habits that keep them audit-proof.2 min read · 5-question quiz
4. Allowable and unallowable costsThe tests in FAR Part 31, common unallowable costs, and how to keep them out of your billings.2 min read · 5-question quiz
5. Incurred cost submissionsThe annual proposal that settles your actual indirect rates, and how to stay on schedule.2 min read · 5-question quiz

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