Government contractors often struggle with customer invoice creation because of the varying requirements from customer-to-customer and contract-to-contract. QuickBooks Online and Desktop provide opportunities for efficient creation of customer invoices from time and expense data. The keys to success lie in proper setup of Items for labor category and expenses, and the automated synchronization of time and expense data. We find many clients spe...

Labor distribution converts hours into dollars and distributes those dollars throughout the GL and across jobs. Payroll journal entries record the employer's portion of employment taxes and offset salaries payable created by the labor distribution process. Both are necessary for the accurate calculation of indirect rates for government contracts. Errors often include failure to segregate labor accounts and properly account for employee deducti...

The 2021 GAUGE Report co-produced by CohnReznick, is the fifth edition of a practical benchmarking tool celebrating increasing popularity, visibility and utilization. Focused on a key concern of competition, the latest edition of the GAUGE report features responses from more than 1,400 companies with no dollars to billions of dollars in federal sector revenues. The power of the GAUGE Report is realized by thousands more companies utilizing the...

The Summit brings together industry experts involved in the field of nuclear deterrence to discuss the management of the nuclear complex, the security of the stockpile and arms control negotiations. Gather information through conference sessions, such as deterrence outlook, modernization strategy, updates from the National Nuclear Security Agency labs, Congressional initiatives and more! Become a sponsor at the Nuclear Deterrence Summit to net...

Proposal pricing is key to winning government contracts and executing them with maximum profitability. This webinar focuses on the completeness of direct costs and the accuracy of indirect rates. We'll discuss three types of budgets, their relationship to indirect rates, and how they affect each other. We'll share our three-step process for preparing budgets and explain when budgets and indirect rates must be updated as part of the proposal pr...

The annual incurred cost proposal (ICP) is no small task for government contractors. With 23+ tabs in an Excel file and many supporting documents, the ICP is often a weeks long project. We find that a significant portion of time required to complete the ICP is the gathering of documents, researching variances, and answering questions. Think of the ICP like a tax return for your government contracts. Your tax preparer sends you a list of necess...

The evolution of computing in the government market has flowed from the mainframe to client server and now to the cloud. Cloud computing as a concept and line of business is a decade old but it also is still in its infancy with a diverse and growing universe of opportunities as agencies put their focus on digitization and IT modernization. In Washington Technology's December Power Breakfast, industry experts will explore what the latest trends...

For more than 35 years the MILCOM conference has served as the pre-eminent forum for sharing research related to the unique challenges of military communications. The contributions from and collaborations across academia, industry, and government have been a hallmark of the conferences since its inception. IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) and AFCEA International (AFCEA) are proud to jointly sponsor this conference and remain strongly commi...

In addition to highlighting trends in vulnerability management, this year's survey digs a little deeper into how cloud and the expanding remote workforce affected the ways in which organizations handle reporting and remediation. On this webcast, sponsor representatives will join the survey author for an analysis of the survey, and share their thoughts on emerging vulnerability management trends. Click the Get Registered button to sign up for t...

Ransomware attacks have become some of the most prolific and public intrusions over recent years. Within a matter of hours, organizations can go from normal operations to having an inoperable network and being extorted for tens of millions of dollars. On this webcast, SANS instructor and author Matt Bromiley, as well as sponsor representatives, will share their thoughts on modern detection and response techniques for ransomware breaches.