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STANDARD FORM 1408 (BACK)
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What Is Required?
Preaward Survey of Prospective Contractor Accounting
System
SF 1408 Overview – Accounting System Provides For:
Proper segregation of direct costs and indirect costs
Solution: Good Chart of Accounts Structure
Identify and Accumulate Direct Costs by Contract
Solution: Project Codes (Customer/Job)
Logical method for allocating indirect costs
Solution: Square footage, staff size, salary $
Accumulation of Costs Under General Ledger Control
Solution: Must use a software with good G/L—some
don’t have this
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What Is Required?
Preaward Survey of Prospective Contractor Accounting
System
SF 1408 Overview – Accounting System Provides For:
Timekeeping System that identifies employees labor by
intermediate or final cost objective
Solution: In QB environment, add‐on product needed‐virtual
time works well http://virtualsoftware.net/; timekeeping
systems of payroll companies like ADP
Labor distribution system that charges direct and indirect labor to
appropriate cost objectives
Solution: Can be achieved using QB payroll, or a system that
can use QB payroll tables, such as Virtual Time, or via
spreadsheet calculation then put into QB via journal entry
(manually intensive)
Interim (min. monthly) determination of costs charged to a
contract through routine posting of books of account
Solution: Good monthly financial reporting (can be in
spreadsheet)
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