• The disputes and appeals process
• Procedures for avoiding and resolving disputes
• Government remedies for fraud and corruption
• The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
• The Cost Accounting Standards (CAS)

This book offers practical advice, as well as the history of the cost and pricing regulations, providing an analytical framework. It offers a detailed review of:

• The rules governing contract pricing
• Financing
• Administration
• Audit
• Changes
• Terminations
• Each FAR cost principle and CAS section and underlying statutes
• Interpretive caselaw

For easier research, appendixes include reprints of the pre-FAR and pre-CAS cost and pricing regulations, CAS Working Group items, CAS Board Disclosure Statements, a glossary of acronyms, and a table of cases.