The rise and fall of the Cost Accounting Standards Board

Article Abstract:

The manner in which the Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB), which was once a heavyweight in the federal acquisition field in the 1970s, has become a weakened entity with no staff and few accomplishments currently is explored. The role of CASB-past, present and future- is assessed and an overview of its historical development, its accomplishments and its status in the federal acquisition process is presented.

Legislative Bodies, Accounting, auditing, & bookkeeping, Accounting & Auditing Services, Accounting, Tax Preparation, Bookkeeping, and Payroll Services, Cost Accounting Standards Board, Accounting firms, Accounting services, United States. Cost Accounting Standards Board, Agency overview

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Practical approaches for improving project success

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The factors that significantly impact enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation in the public sector from a practitioner's point of view and detail of some successful approaches to meet these challenges are presented. The practices are suggested to help the public sector organizations improve their ERP implementation strategy and might also generate additional research.

Influence, Technology application, Enterprise resource planning

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Measuring performance

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Government organizations are continuously devising new initiatives to meet challenges from customers and markets, but many times these initiatives fail, partly or fully. The details of how one organization Public Works Center (PWC) met the challenge using their Cost and Performance Management System are presented.

Business performance management

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