Government Contracting: Contractor Promotional Advertising Costs Are Unallowable

Weekly Updates

LegiStorm is constantly adding new information on the people, places and reports in our database. In the past week, LegiStorm added:

376 new people
171 new organizations
408 new photos
1234 job history records for people in our database
653 education records for people in our database
1467 contact addresses, emails and URLs (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.)
3 new people through the revolving door
109 new policy reports
43 new trips to our privately funded travel database
629 new personal financial disclosures
15148 new press releases
11 new town halls
25 new hearings

Caught Our Eye Rss

Some legislators prioritize talk, not action

by Heavyn Lester on 09/23/2024
Former state sen. joins conservative immigration group

by Heavyn Lester on 09/17/2024
Some representatives are burning through their budgets

by Heavyn Lester on 09/16/2024
Burlison hires foul-mouthed comms specialist

by Andy Gottlieb on 09/13/2024
Lobbyist returns to Senate as chief of staff

by Heavyn Lester on 09/12/2024

» More from Caught Our Eye

Follow @LegiStorm

LegiStorm adds House Q2 salaries and expenses

2024-09-05
Latest Senate salary and expense records published

2024-06-10
LegiStorm adds House Q1 salaries and expenses

2024-06-05
LegiStorm adds Q4 salary analytics and turnover data

2024-03-14

» More from our DevBlog

Lobbyists exploit massive loophole to wine and dine lawmakers, aides at fancy getaways

by Politico on 09/22/2024
Vulnerable Dem senator who touts record 'fighting' lobbyists has long history of hiring them

by Fox News on 09/18/2024
Kamala Harris ran her office like a prosecutor. Not everyone liked that.

by The Washingon Post on 09/09/2024
Letter: Van Ostern’s recent flyer

by Concord Monitor on 08/29/2024

Premium Download PDF Now (10 pages)

Report Type	Reports and Testimonies
Report Date	April 10, 1990
Report No.	NSIAD-90-52
Subject	Accounting procedures Allowable costs Contract costs Department of Defense contractors Fighter aircraft Public relations B-2 Aircraft F-14D Aircraft F-15E Aircraft V-22 Aircraft Weapons systems Advertising costs

Summary:

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed: (1) Department of Defense (DOD) contractors' costs for advertising four weapon systems to increase public support; and (2) whether DOD contractors charged those advertising costs to their contracts.

GAO found that DOD contractors: (1) did not charge promotional advertising costs to government contracts; (2) properly charged advertising costs to corporate accounts and excluded those costs from any billing claim or proposal applicable to a government contract; (3) planned to spend approximately $2 million during 1989 advertising the four weapon systems; (4) planned to claim at least $1.4 million as deductible business expenses, in accordance with federal income tax regulations; and (5) had accounting systems in place that properly identified those expenses as unallowable.

« Return to search Government Accountability Office reports

Weekly Updates

Caught Our Eye Rss

Social Media

DevBlog Rss

In the News

Government Contracting: Contractor Promotional Advertising Costs Are Unallowable