by Lea Strickland | Jul 30, 2014 | Business Articles, Government Funding Compliance
Who is your cognizant agency1? Does it relieve you of the additional audit requirements of other agencies and awards if you meet the requirements of your cognizant agency? The answer is … it depends. Ideally there is one set of requirements that is consistent...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 30, 2014 | Business Articles, Government Funding Compliance
Your company just passed a full-scale government audit by independent, external auditors. Those auditors just spent two weeks going over what seems like every transaction, policy and every entry you ever made in QuickBooks. Good news! You passed with flying colors....
by Lea Strickland | Jul 29, 2014 | Business Articles, Economy and Economics, Entrepreneur, Government Funding Compliance, Small Business, Small Business, Start-up
It should surprise no one that I believe that the success of economies is built on the efforts of the private sector, and that government’s role is to provide oversight to maintain open competition, prevent and detect fraud, and regulate activities to the extent...
by Lea Strickland | Sep 28, 2009 | Business Articles, C.O.R.E. Business System, Commercialization, Government Funding Compliance
Commercialization: Viability, Visibility, Capability, and Credibility To begin a discussion of commercialization, we must begin with a few definitions. First, for convenience, the term “product” will be all inclusive of the following: technology, software, protein,...
by Lea Strickland | Sep 28, 2009 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Economy and Economics, Government Funding Compliance, Small Business, Small Business, Start-up
More and more, it becomes apparent that the government does not—and can not—hold the answers for U.S. competitiveness. At best, the government must be encouraged to get out of the way to enable businesses to be able to compete. Federal, state, and local governments,...
by Lea Strickland | Sep 28, 2009 | Business Articles, Government Funding Compliance, Small Business
The New Small Business Innovation Research Grant Program Reauthorization Bill: H.R. 5819 “Modernizing” Grant Programs It is a long-awaited and still much-contended piece of legislation, but the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act (H.R. 5819) is one step closer to reality....