Defense Contract Audit Agency

provider with the appropriate telecommunications systems can be located anywhere and still performs her job. Working at home has two main advantages (1) decreased costs through smaller offices, and (2) flexibility in hiring additional workers on a contract basis. There are also disadvantages, both to the firm and to the workers. For the firm, evaluating and managing employees is complicated. Also, it is harder to spot problems and make informal suggestions and corrections without daily personal…

This article discusses Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) as a formal process for managing IT projects. Moreover, list out the current process that the U.S. Federal Government currently uses in the contract award. (Mishra, Das & Murray et al., 2014, p. 5) 3. The purpose of the study was to identify key risk in federal IT projects and examine the role of process maturity in mitigating risks. Three risks were identified including complexity, contracting…

In addition, some of our ingredients, such as aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, saccharin and ascorbic acid, as well as some of the packaging containers, such as aluminum cans, are available from a limited number of suppliers, some of which are located in countries experiencing political or other risks. We cannot assure you that we and our bottling partners will be able to maintain favorable arrangements and relationships with these suppliers. The citrus industry is subject to the…

Service-sector companies provide services or intangible products to their customers—for example, legal advice or audits. Only manufacturing and merchandising companies have inventories of goods for sale. 2. Inventoriable costs are all costs of a product that are regarded as an asset when they are incurred and then become cost of goods sold when the product is…

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production lead times. ➤ With escalator clauses, the company requires the customer to pay today’s price and all or part of any inflation increase that occurs before delivery, based on some specified price index. Such clauses are found in many contracts involving industrial projects of long duration. ➤ With unbundling, the company maintains its price but removes or prices separately one or more elements that were part of the former offer, such as free delivery or installation. ➤…

to each user as first the primary user, the second-ranked user, the third-ranked user, and so on. 15-10 All contracts with U.S. government agencies must comply with cost accounting standards issued by the Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB). 15-11 Areas of dispute between contracting parties can be reduced by making the “rules of the game” explicit and in writing at the time the contract is signed. 15-12 Companies increasingly are selling packages of products or services for a single price.…