For Government Contractors

Get DCAA-Ready Before You Win the Contract

DCAA readiness is about proving your business can manage government contract money properly. WiseCost automates timekeeping, labor distribution, and journal entries so you can focus on winning, not scrambling.

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Why DCAA Compliance Matters

Readiness is about proving you can manage contract money properly

The Gatekeeper

The SF 1408 pre-award survey happens before the award. Your accounting system must be DCAA-compliant before you can touch government contract money.

Primes Expect It

Even if you never hold a direct federal contract, primes vet their subcontractors' accounting systems before teaming. Being DCAA-ready makes you the low-risk partner to pick.

Readiness Takes Time

The contract officer reviews your system's design, not just its operation. Start building your compliant system now. Approval can come before the work starts.

Time tracking built for DCAA, not retrofitted for it

DCAA-Compliant Time Tracking: Employees log hours by project and cost category with built-in validations. Every entry is timestamped and immutably recorded.

Timesheet Approval Workflow: Admins review and approve timesheets with full audit trail. Reject with comments, re-open periods, all with DCAA-required traceability.

Automated Labor Distribution

Automated Labor Distribution: Calculate hourly costs, allocate labor to projects, and generate journal entries, all posted directly to QuickBooks® Online.

Journal Entries & Reversals: Every journal entry posted to QuickBooks Online is tracked with full audit history. Re-open a period? WiseCost creates a reversal JE automatically.

AI-assisted
Patent-pending

Rates, reports & real profitability

AI-Powered Pool Setup: WiseCost suggests how to classify your QuickBooks accounts into cost pools (Direct, Fringe, Overhead, G&A, Unallowable). You review and approve every suggestion, and every change is logged.

Indirect Rates & Real Profitability: Because every hour is tracked in WiseCost, indirect costs are allocated over your actual labor base. You see your true cost and profitability per contract, not just direct costs.

Audit-ready by design

Immutable Audit Trail: Every action is logged with who, what, when, and from/to values. Logs cannot be modified or deleted, built for DCAA floor checks.

SF-1408 Ready: WiseCost is designed to satisfy every requirement of the pre-award accounting system survey, so you can pursue T&M contracts with confidence.

Free Training

Learn DCAA compliance from scratch for free

Chart of accounts, timekeeping requirements, labor distribution, and how to prepare for a pre-award survey, covered in plain language by a CPA with deep GovCon experience.

DCAA-Ready Chart of Accounts for QuickBooks Online

147 accounts across all required cost pools. Enter your email and we send it instantly ($2,000 value, yours free). Reviewed & validated by Wendroff & Associates CPA.

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Ready when the contracting officer calls

Most contractors aren't ready when the SF 1408 request comes in. WiseCost sets up your accounting system for DCAA compliance in days, so you're prepared before you ever submit a proposal.

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