Join Dixon Hughes Goodman partners Mark Burroughs and Bill Walter as we co-host Demystifying Cost Accounting Standards with the Public Contracting Institute. This 4-part virtual classroom series is designed to provide a basic understanding of how to work within the fundamental requirements of the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) in understandable, easy to understand plain English business terms. The Cost Accounting Standards were designed to pr...

Please join us for an update on DCAA’s evaluation of compensation costs. Mr. Mark Burroughs and Mr. Bill Walter of Dixon Hughes Goodman will be joined by Ms. Nicole Owren-Wiest of Wiley Rein LLP and Mr. Stephen D. Knight of Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC to discuss the combined impacts of the J.F. Taylor and Metron cases and specific areas that contractors should consider as they have compensation costs evaluated by the DCAA. Some of the cu...

This year is proving to be a challenge for government contractors. Federal markets are shifting due to shrinking budgets, new regulations and the changing missions of agencies. While there seems to be a stalemate over budget reform, most government agencies have accepted that leaner times are ahead. This process is a growing source of uncertainty and frustration for government contractors who are trying to win new contracts and hold on to curr...

The government contracting industry is already facing challenges with a declining spending budget. Adding to that challenge is the effects of the Sequestration, concerns regarding status of another continuing resolution for appropriations and the potential needs in increasing the federal debt ceiling, implementation of budget sequestration, and the status of federal appropriations in the current fiscal year are three separate problems holding...

Don't miss the ACG Global / Dixon Hughes Goodman Private Equity Government Contracting Services Webinar, In the Midst of the Eye of the Storm - Current Risks of Sequestration, Continuing Resolution, Debt Ceiling and Ongoing Budget Crisis. We'll provide an overview of the budget challenges affecting government contractors and actions that should be taken so that a company can appropriately identify and react to risk.What You Will Learn: Budget...

June 30th is just around the corner and the nightmare returns. It’s time to develop your plan of attack for the completion, review and submission of your incurred cost submission (ICS) by June 30th (within 180 days after the end of your fiscal year). As you begin to work through the planning process, our experts will update you on some of the hot topics associated with ICS to help you evaluate risk and challenges based on the “brav...

The Department of Defense (DoD) recently issued its updated, new and improved edition of its Better Buying Power (BBP) guidance to help contracting officers "do more with less.” The BBP guidance was initiated in late 2010 as a series of "best practices” to strengthen buying power, improve industry productivity and provide and affordable, value added military capability to the Warfighter. The intent of BBP is to promote fundamental...

DCAA tactics used to challenge Executive Compensation have been rejected by the courts in two significant, recent decisions. DCAA is continuing with business as usual - what is next for industry? This webinar will present legal and audit points of view on Executive Compensation with Nicole Owren-Wiest, a Partner with Wiley Rein, LLP- the attorneys that successfully defended JF Taylor in the initial Board decision - and Bill Walter, a Partner w...

Webinar Series: How to Thrive in a Challenging Economy!Are you concerned about increased competition, declining budgets and sequestration? Please join Dixon Hughes Goodman for a four part webinar series, How to Thrive in a Challenging Economy! Listen to our professionals discuss strategies that can help contractors succeed in a turbulent fiscal environment.Today, companies that do business with the Federal Government are concerned with many si...

Webinar Series: How to Thrive in a Challenging Economy!Are you concerned about increased competition, declining budgets and sequestration? Please join Dixon Hughes Goodman for a four part webinar series, How to Thrive in a Challenging Economy! Listen to our professionals discuss strategies that can help contractors succeed in a turbulent fiscal environment.Today, companies that do business with the Federal Government are concerned with many si...