Free Registration:  http://govtcontracts101.eventbrite.com/# Working on a RO1?  Won an SBIR grant?   Have you received an award from a federal agency that uses cost plus reimbursement contracts?  Ready to apply for a grant, but first you want to understand contract negotiation? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then join ITAC and Jameson CPA for a [...]

The Department of Defense (DoD) requires Contractors to have a Property Management System (PMS) for Government Property in the possession of the Contractor. FAR 52.245-1 is the Primary Government Property clause containing the FAR requirements for the management and control of Government Property (GP) both Government Furnished (GFP) and Contractor Acquired (CAP). If your DoD [...]

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They may be. The Bayh-Dole Act (BDA) of 1980 forms the foundation of ownership rights of intellectual property arising from Federal Government funded research.  However, BDA is largely misunderstood by the various Government Agencies as well as the Government auditors. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 31.205-30 states that “patent costs are only allowable if required” by [...]

Our Webinar Schedule has been updated through December 4th, 2012. Please visit our Webinar Registration Page for more details, or click one of the following links to register for a Webinar today!  Registration is free, but space is limited. Available Dates: Wednesday August 1st, 2012 at 2:30pm (Indirect Rate Workshop) - **Click here to Register** Tuesday [...]

Our latest SBIR Accounting Webinar on Projecting Indirect Rates is now available for download in the  Free Resources Section of our website.  You may request to download the file here:   http://www.jamesoncpa.com/complimentary-information/      

In general, the cost of staffing your Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Company´s accounting department is driven by the following three elements: 1. Number of employees 2. Annual revenue and volume of transactions 3. Reporting requirements and other terms and conditions imposed by contract or grant between your company and its customers. The administration of [...]

We recently placed a poll onto Linked-In to review how most SBIR entrepreneurs feel about the Indirect Rates they proposed, or received on their current and active awards. To take the poll on Linked-In, click here

Chris is an owner and CTO of a small biotech R&D Company in upstate New York.  He attended my webinar recently and very quickly understood the idea, that by checking the 40% box on the cost portion of his NIH proposal he was leaving a lot of money on the table. Chris downloaded the NIH [...]

After some serious deliberation, our conclusion is we doubt it, but it’s not clear, and it hasn’t been excluded – yet.