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This course is designed especially for non-financial managers, administrators, technical professionals, executives, legal counsel, and line and staff personnel who must understand the contract cost, accounting, and financial aspects of government contracting. Its purpose is to increase your overall effectiveness as a contract professional.
The course approach is both wide (focusing on the big picture and how the entire system works) and narrow (scrutinizing the day to day activities in finance and accounting contract issues). If you work with government contracts, you will benefit from clear, non-technical explanations in areas such as:
- Pre-award cost issues
- Cost Accounting Systems
- Direct and Indirect costs
- Cost pools
- Contract funding
- Progress payments
- Incurred costs
- Scope changes
- Audits
- Closeouts
Compressed to essence, much of this course is concerned with financial controls. Such as what controls are generated and should be generated, what figures and reports mean, and what managerial responses are called for. It's a formidable package to teach. A package requiring a person with special knowledge, special experience, and special instructional ability.
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Dates and Locations
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August 6-7, 2012
L'Enfant Plaza Hotel
Wasington , DC
$1025.00
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November 28-29, 2012
New York-New York Hotel
Las Vegas, NV
$1025.00
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Accreditation
This Program is eligible for:
n/a (60 minute)
This Program is eligible for:
13.0 (CPE) hours of credit
Program Level: Basic
Program Prerequisite: None
Advance Preparation: None
Method: Group-Live
This Program is eligible for:
11.0 (CLP) hours of credit
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Daily Schedule
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Course Curriculum
- Financial & Cost Rules/Guidance in Federal Procurement
- Public Law
- Federal Acquisition Regulation
- Agency Supplemental Regulations
- Cost Accounting Standards
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- FAR Cost Principles (Part 31)
- Generally Accepted Auditing Standards
- Pre-Award Cost Issues
- Cost Accounting Systems
- The Internal Cost Structure
- Direct cost
- Indirect cost
- Cost pool structure
- Other direct cost
- Labor/Overhead rates
- Capitalized expenditures
- Pre-Award Surveys
- Assessing Contractor Risks
- Solicitations and Invitations for Bid
- Understanding the Scope of Work
- Developing the Statement of Work
- Pricing Estimating strategies
- Bidding Rates (Labor & Overhead)
- Developing Cost/Schedule Proposals
- Types of Contracts
- Fixed Price
- Cost Reimbursement
- Other
- Accounting Implications
- Contract Funding
- Full Funding
- Incremental Funding
- Internal Funding
- Reserves and Contingencies
- Spending vs. Funding
- Contract Financing
- Progress Payments
- Loss Contracts
- Ordinary and Alternate Liquidation Rates
- Contract Payments
- Interest Penalties
- Incurred Costs
- Allowability
- Allocability
- Reasonableness
- Advance Agreements
- Billing Rates (Labor & Overhead)
- Limitation of Cost/Funds Clauses
- FAR Cost Principles - Part 31
- Truth in Negotiations Act
- Penalties for Claiming Unallowable Costs
- Scope Changes and Contract Cost/Schedule
- Formal Change Orders
- Constructive Changes
- Government Audits
- Entrance & Exit Conferences
- Pre-Award Audits
- Post-Award Audits
- Managing Audits
- Contract Closeout
- Final Rates (Labor & Overhead)
- Incentive Price Provisions
- Contract Profitability
- Quick Closeout
- Normal Closeout
Joseph Higgins is a Principal at JTH Consulting in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Mr. Higgins has extensive financial management experience in government contracting, specifically in the development and implementation of cost allocation systems to ensure cost recovery on government contracts. He has assisted clients with completion of CASB Disclosure Statements and related issues with compliance with the Cost Accounting Standards. Mr. Higgins has expertise in all required government contracting management systems, including cost estimating and earned value management systems (EVMS). He has extensive knowledge in the areas of contract claims, particularly claims in connection with terminations for the convenience of the government.
Accreditation
This Program is eligible for:
n/a (60 minute)
This Program is eligible for:
13.0 (CPE) hours of credit
Program Level: Basic
Program Prerequisite: None
Advance Preparation: None
Method: Group-Live
This Program is eligible for:
11.0 (CLP) hours of credit
L'Enfant Plaza Hotel 480 L'Enfant Plaza SW
Wasington , DC 20024
New York-New York Hotel 3790 Las Vegas Blvd S
Las Vegas, NV 89109
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| August 6-7, 2012 |
Wasington , DC |
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| November 28-29, 2012 |
Las Vegas, NV |
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By Phone
Call (888) 494-3696
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