Glenn Behrends

Glenn Behrends

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DFARS Business Systems: A First-hand Perspective

Prior to retiring from DCAA, I was involved in developing the 2012 DCAA Requirements Plan for the Huntsville Branch Office. Since one of my Huntsville contractors was a major, I was required to coordinate my plan with the DCAA Contract Audit Coordinator (CAC) in Chicago. The CAC was estimating the Business Systems staffing requirement for ONE major contractor. The estimate was prepared to consider auditing the Accounting and Billing business system requirements using the draft DCAA audit program for the respective systems. The CAC advised me that its estimate of the hours required to complete TWO business system audits across all segments of the ONE major contractor would be 235,000 over a two-year period. This estimate was communicated to DCAA management at the All Managers Meeting in the fall of 2011.

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Topics: Compliant Accounting Infrastructure, Government Compliance Training, DFARS Business Systems, DCAA Audit Support