Join CohnReznick and Unanet as they provide preliminary insights from the 6th Annual GAUGE Report. This year's Report titled, Reimagining the Workforce, examines COVID's effect on hiring, retention, and workplace location policies and provides new data on employee perks, benefits, and compensation plans. Participants also will receive perspectives on today's contracting landscape to include what's keeping execs up night, areas of optimism and challenges, and the implications of our annual benchmarking data. The Report is based on the GAUGE Survey where 1,000+ contractors were polled in five main areas of contracting: Government Contract Compliance, Accounting, Utilization, Growth, and Efficiencies.

Join the authors of the GAUGE Report for the final 2024 results, based on the GAUGE Survey, where 1,255 contributors provided answers in five main areas of contracting: government contract compliance, accounting, utilization, growth, and efficiencies. The webinar presenters will share new data on improving company compliance and efficiencies, including cash flow, project management, labor resources, indirect rates, and, most of all, applying AI insights to accelerate businesses' profitability. Designed for GovCon executives, accounting and finance departments, HR managers, IT managers, and operations, this webinar will also cover:  Current market dynamics and key organizational issues, opportunities, and challenges  Business and project management outlook, performance, and operations metrics  Compliance and audit experiences, costs, and key metrics  Noteworthy trends and actionable steps for addressing industry issues, with a focus on AI enablement  AI Maturity Model: Six steps to kick start your AI strategy, data usage & confidence, tools, and integration

In this four-part webinar series, each session will acquaint the participant with a different aspect of cost-based acquisition and will tackle some of the unique cost-based acquisition requirements including contract pricing, contract accounting, contract accounting administration and contract audits. The cost-based approach may require the submission of certified cost or pricing data; impose Cost Accounting Standards; oblige reporting requirements such as final rate submissions; and invoke Government audit rights on a company's contract pricing, cost accounting and business systems.  

As one of the most significant costs incurred under US Government contracts compensation cost presents challenges to industry and the Government alike. Challenges including documentation; reconciliation; business context; uncompensated overtime; and executive compensation and offsets. This webinar provides an overview of selected audit risks and considerations and shares practices to help manage some of the risks contractors experience during these audits. Learning Objectives: Session participants will gain knowledge about the key audit risks and discuss leading practices to mitigate audit risk and optimize cost compensation cost recovery.

Join us for this four-part webinar series where we will explore the cost accounting and allowability requirements to help classify, account for, and optimize R&D expenditures. In this four-part series, each session will tackle some of the unique accounting and regulatory requirements including: Introducing participants to each of the seven types of R&D; Addressing key requirements such as cost allowability and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS); Discussing some differences between financial accounting and Government contract accounting requirements; and raise audit and administration considerations.

The DCAA's most recent annual report to Congress identified almost $7B of IR&D incurred by contractors in their FY 2020 final rate submissions. This is a fraction of the IR&D cost incurred and does not include the other six types of R&D costs companies incur. Looking beyond FAR 31.205-18 and CAS 420, this webinar will introduce the different classifications of R&D costs, the circumstances and purpose supporting each type of effort and overview the applicable Government contract cost accounting and allowability requirements. This session will establish the foundation for this 4-part webinar series. Learning Objectives: By the end of this session, participants will become familiar with FAR 31.205-18, IR&D and B&P and CAS 420, Accounting for IR&D and B&P costs and be able to identify the seven categories of R&D costs; understand the key differences between each category; describe circumstances underlying each type of activity and establish the foundation for a deeper dive into the cost accounting and allowability of each category of R&D costs.