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How to Maintain Compliance Documentation for Sales Tax Audits | TaxConnex

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Maintaining compliance documentation is crucial for businesses to ensure smooth and successful audits. Proper documentation allows auditors to interpret and verify your financial transactions accurately. Unfortunately, many businesses find themselves unprepared when faced with an audit, lacking the necessary documentation.

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Common Accounting Mistakes: Government Edition - Issue #9 How Quality Management Effects Accounting

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The core of a total quality management is to say what you do, do what you say, and have documentation to back it up. Often when people think about quality management, they think about the quality of their deliverables, such as passing an inspection or being within tolerance, but quality effects all your business systems, and your bottom line.

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Common Accounting Mistakes: Government Edition - Issue #7 Accounting for Fixed Price vs Cost Contracts

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This requires a detailed job costing within an accounting system for which many contractors are not prepared. These oversight bodies are not typically concerned with a contractor’s accounting system during a phase I award because of the fixed price. This type of contract requires detailed tracking of costs.

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Common Accounting Mistakes: Government Edition - Issue #12 R&D

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For tax purposes, guidance may be different, but for this article’s purpose, the methods of recording R&D in a contractor’s accounting system will be discussed. Typically it is recorded when the expense is incurred in an R&D expense account. There are some exceptions to this accounting treatment.

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Common Accounting Mistakes: Government Edition - Issue #4 Documentation to Prove It!

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Receipts, emails, contracts, timecards… the list of items a small business must maintain as documentation goes on and on! When a small business enters the world of government contracting, the risk associated with maintaining supporting documentation increases significantly. Does your documentation prove that?

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Common Accounting Mistakes: Government Edition - Issue #4 Documentation to Prove It!

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Receipts, emails, contracts, timecards… the list of items a small business must maintain as documentation goes on and on! When a small business enters the world of government contracting, the risk associated with maintaining supporting documentation increases significantly. Does your documentation prove that?

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DFARS Accounting Systems: Ensuring Compliance and Accuracy

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The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) outlines specific requirements for contractors’ accounting systems. These systems play a crucial role in ensuring accurate financial reporting, compliance with regulations, and effective cost management. What Is an Accounting System?