Q.  We are moving our headquarters from Atlanta to Washington DC. The accounting staff would still be at the Atlanta office and would be required to travel to the DC office for the audits.  Would this help us in any way since all the information, paperwork and records would still be in our Atlanta office? Or would DCAA still use the Atlanta DCAA branch to do their audits for DC?

A. General guidance is that DCAA will conduct their audit at the office where the majority of accounting records are located. It seems that the Atlanta office would qualify and if your audits were out of the DC office DCAA would change their cognizant office to the location closest to your DC office. In this age of electronic communication, you probably have flexibility on where you want to locate the audit liaison activity so what is your preference? Based on your preference, you can often justify where you want to go.  For example, if you prefer DC, you can always state your government liaison and senior financial people are located in DC and you can electronically access all relevant accounting information from any location, including DC.

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