Disapproved system, withheld billings
DCAA finds your accounting system inadequate. Billings get withheld, progress payments slow, and cash you have already earned sits frozen while you fix a control you did not know was weak.
Government contract accounting pathway
When DCAA questions your indirect rates, your team answers with the standard, the math, and the memo. Not a guess.
For controllers, CFOs and government contract accounting leads at defense contractors and their subcontractors. Know whether CAS applies and at what level, defend every cost as allocable and allowable, and stay ahead of the 2026 threshold changes, using your own contracts and your own disclosure statement.
Your procedures, your findingsA named person signs every outputISO 27001 certified, CMMC Level 2 compliant, ITAR compliant
The stakes
What is at risk if the team is not ready.
Cost disallowed on the incurred-cost audit
The auditor reclassifies a pool, challenges an allocation base, or disallows a cost as unallowable under FAR Part 31. The rate drops. The recovery you booked evaporates, sometimes a year after you spent it.
Undisclosed practice change triggers cost impact
A change in cost accounting practice you did not disclose triggers a cost-impact analysis. Now you owe the government the difference, plus interest, and you are on the 60-day correction clock.
The 2026 changes blindside you
The FY2026 NDAA moved the thresholds. The CAS Board is conforming standards to GAAP and has proposed eliminating several. Your team is still running last year's framework. Your training is teaching numbers that are not true anymore.
The outcome
What your team becomes.
Thirty days after rollout, this is what changes.
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CAS-fluent finance teamEvery analyst can read a contract and know in minutes whether CAS applies, at what coverage level, and which FAR 52.230 clause attaches. No more waiting on outside counsel for the basics.
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Allocations that survive the auditYour team defends every cost as allocable, knows exactly where FAR Part 31 allowability diverges, and builds indirect rates that hold up from forward pricing through billing to final rates.
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Ready for the 2026 transitionYour team knows the old framework, the live transition, and the new one, every threshold and standard date-stamped. You walk into 2026 awards knowing exactly what changed and when.
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The accounting system DCAA acceptsA Disclosure Statement that matches actual practice, a system that passes the adequacy checklist, and an incurred-cost submission that closes without findings.
What is included
The courses in this pathway.
Every course is adapted to your procedures and your examples before your team sees it. One course for one team, or a program across roles and sites. Neither requires buying the full platform.
Available
Cost Accounting Standards for Government Contractors
48 CFR Chapter 99 as your team will meet it: applicability and coverage, the standards that bite first, the FY2026 NDAA changes, disclosure statements and cost impact. Practiced on your contracts.
See the course catalog ↗Course availability, learner group and customization scope are confirmed before purchase. Standards references identify the subject matter, not endorsement by the standards owner.
After the training
What the platform does in this pathway.
Memos, disclosure language and procedures are the record DCAA reads. These workflows keep that record controlled and attributable.
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Document control and memory
Draft, redline, route, release. Every revision numbered and immutable. Questions are answered only from your released documents, with the number, the revision, and who signed it. A withdrawn revision cannot be cited by any route.
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Records and registers
NCR, CAR, SCAR, objectives, suppliers, licenses. One ledger, append-only, every disposition signed by a named person with a date.
03
Training matrix and competency records
People by competency. Every cell clicks through to its certificate, its date, and its expiry. Gaps and lapses surface before the auditor finds them.
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Manager dashboard and audit-evidence package
Who completed what, where the gaps are, and a PDF package you can hand to the registrar. Objective evidence, not a binder.
The AI proposes. A qualified person signs. Nothing is born approved.
Workflows are scoped per engagement. See all eight on the homepage ↗
Who built this
Built by auditors.
Not a course company that added AI.
Every course and every workflow was written by practitioners who have sat on both sides of the registrar's table: third-party AS9100 and ISO 9001 auditing, 20 years of aerospace quality, and the consulting engagements that came after the findings.
What that means for you
- Content written to what auditors actually check, not to the standard's table of contents
- Scenarios drawn from real findings, with the names taken off
- Every AI output stays a draft until a named person on your team signs it
- You would be one of our first platform customers. Ask us what that buys you.
Before you book
Your questions, answered.
Is this Cost Accounting Standards or Client Accounting Services?
Cost Accounting Standards: 48 CFR Chapter 99, the federal standards governing how government contractors measure, assign, and allocate costs on negotiated contracts. If you bill the government and DCAA examines your rates, this is your world. It is not bookkeeping or client accounting services.
Our contracts are under the new $35M threshold. Do we still need this?
Often yes. Even CAS-exempt contractors live under FAR Part 31 cost principles, DCAA scrutiny of indirect rates, and incurred-cost submission requirements. Thresholds also move and companies grow into coverage. The pathway teaches where you stand today and what changes as your award profile changes.
Everything is changing in 2026. Won't this be outdated by the time we finish?
That is exactly why it exists. Every threshold and standard carries an "as of" date. We teach the framework before the FY2026 NDAA changes, the live transition, and the framework after. Your team is current the day the FAR change takes effect on June 30, 2026, not a year behind it.
Who on my team is this for?
Controllers, government contract accounting managers, and the FP&A analysts who build indirect rates and proposals, plus the DCAA-compliance lead. The CFO gets the dashboard view. The people who touch the accounting system take the course.
Bring the award that moved you across a threshold.
Thirty minutes. We scope the pathway to your award profile, your CAS posture and your audit timeline.
Book a 30 minute demo ↗