Indirect Costs and Rates
Format: Live webinar (on-demand recording available on August 28, 2025)
Date: August 21, 2025
Time: 1:00 p.m. EDT
Duration: Approx. 90 minutes
Instructor: Jacob Barclay, Barclay Group LLC
Learning Credits: 1.5 CPEs, 1.5 ATCs
*Your registration includes access to the on-demand recording.
Indirect costs are a critical component of government contract accounting, yet many contractors struggle to understand how these costs are defined, grouped, and recovered. Without clear processes for developing indirect rates, businesses risk misallocating costs, underpricing contracts, or failing from a compliance standpoint.
This webinar provides a practical overview of how indirect costs are accumulated, allocated, and applied using compliant rate structures. Participants will explore common cost pools like fringe, overhead, and G&A, learn how to select the appropriate allocation base, and walk through rate development and analysis to support accurate pricing and contract management. Additionally, we will explore when creating a subcontractor handling rate would be advantageous.
Here’s what you will learn:
- Distinguish between direct and indirect costs in government contracting
- Understand the structure and purpose of indirect rate pools and bases
- Identify appropriate allocation bases and their causal/beneficial relationship to cost pools
- Learn how to calculate, apply, and analyze indirect rates throughout the contract life cycle
- Explore common pitfalls and compliance risks in indirect cost rate development
Whether you’re building your very first rate structure or refining your current approach, this session will help you apply indirect rates with accuracy and confidence.
Target Audience: Small business contractors, accounting professionals, contract managers, APEX Accelerator counselors, and anyone responsible for cost proposal development or financial compliance in federal contracts
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Jacob BarclayManaging Director of Barclay Group LLCJacob Barclay, CEO of Barclay Group LLC, is an expert lecturer on the topics of accounting and compliance matters for federal government contracting. His experience guiding small to mid-size government contractors over the past 15+ years has resulted in a proven track record of mitigating risks, increasing cost recovery, and driving lucrative profits. Barclay Group was founded over 6 years ago and has successfully helped and coached over 100 clients in the government contracting industry. Jacob is a forward-thinking leader who empowers his team by leveraging their strengths and staying at the forefront of innovative accounting solutions.
Barclay Group leverages its outsourced CFO, contract management, client accounting service, and DCAA/DCMA compliance expertise to help guide clients growth. In a world of unlimited data, Jacob prides his ability to unpack the financial data to manage government contracts wtih confidence.
Jacob enjoys giving back to the local community by serving as a board member on the Tidewater Association of Service Contractors (tasc-tgic.org) where their mission is to increase communication and collaboration between the government and industry contractors to help promote a better acquisition process.
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