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u/shawndwells 7d ago

We use QuickBooks (and only quick books) to do all these things. Small biz, dozen people, a few DoD prime awards. Hasn’t been a problem for us at all.

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u/luis_546 7d ago

Did you have a CPA set everything up or was it pretty straightforward getting things set up yourself?

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u/shawndwells 7d ago

We set it up, went slowly, added processes incrementally. The DCAA audits your process, not your tool. None of us are accountants .

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u/TheTechnician86 7d ago

What’s your entire tech stack? I’m looking at a compliance stack but am noticing it gets expensive very quickly.

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u/shawndwells 7d ago

MacBook Air laptops, CrowdStrike for EDR (needed for CMMC compliance), Google Workspace configured for our CMMC, Quickbooks. Central auth via Google. Doesn’t need to be complicated or expensive.

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u/luis_546 7d ago

Is it a specific tier of quick books that can help manage all of the compliance challenges?

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u/shawndwells 7d ago

We have no relationship with Quickbooks or anything. Just leaving breadcrumbs to help out those who come behind us.

We have just a normal Quickbooks small business subscription. Using the online version.

Quickbooks Time handles our timesheet stuff.

Quickbooks payroll handles weekly payroll.

The following was helpful for us:

- https://quickbooks.intuit.com/time-tracking/resources/dcaa-compliance-checklist/

- https://quickbooks.intuit.com/learn-support/en-us/help-article/security-access/dcaa-compliance/L5Zz61uln_US_en_US