DCAA Audit Readiness
Cost accounting and audit preparation
Cost-reimbursement contracts and large fixed-price awards trigger DCAA scrutiny on your accounting system, indirect rates, and incurred cost submissions. We bring CPA-led audit experience to the work, not just compliance theater.
Most consultants come from one side of the table. Our principal led financial audits at KPMG and BDO and now sits on the contractor side. The accounting system DCAA needs to see is the one we already know how to build.
What you walk away with
Pass your accounting system adequacy review
A DCAA-compliant chart of accounts, timekeeping, and indirect rate structure that survives the SF 1408 review.
File incurred cost submissions on time and clean
ICE-model submissions that reconcile to your books and avoid the most common DCAA questioned-cost categories.
Defend your indirect rates under audit
Pool and base structures designed so your fringe, overhead, and G&A rates hold up when DCAA tests them.
Inside a DCAA Audit Readiness engagement
- Accounting system adequacy review (SF 1408)
- Indirect rate structure design and forward pricing
- Incurred cost submission (ICE) preparation
- Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) compliance
- DCAA audit defense and questioned cost response
What we work against
How We Engage
Three paths into the work, sequenced to where you are in the acquisition cycle.
Subcontracting
We sit on your prime's contract as a compliance subcontractor. Bring us in for assessment, documentation, or audit support without standing up a new vehicle.
Teaming
Joint ventures and teaming agreements with primes that need a CPA + CISSP combination on the bid. Our credentials fill the compliance gap your team does not staff in-house.
Direct
Direct engagements through GSA MAS and 8(a) Direct Award (FY26 target). We take the contract, you get the work.
The practitioner guide to DCAA Audit Readiness
Our principal documents the methodology we bring to every engagement on josefkamara.com. Same playbook, in public, free.
Anonymized work, on request
Anonymized engagement profiles are available on request, pending NDA review. Profiles describe challenge, approach, and outcome without contract numbers, agency names, or dollar values, in line with standard professional services practice.
Request profilesMore for government contractors
- SAM.gov UEI ZT3FHUTFA8P1
- CAGE Code 9UKZ3
- Credentials CPA · CISSP · CISA
- Status Minority-Owned SB
Need to be DCAA-ready by your next contract?
A scoping call covers your current accounting system, the contracts that will trigger audit, and the gap between today and adequacy. We close the gap on a timeline you can budget.
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