New to overhead rate audits or gearing up for your next one? Be ready: auditors are zeroing in on time transfers and labor-related adjustments. It’s one of the first places they look, and one of the quickest ways to raise red flags. Learn how leading CFO's prepare and move beyond compliance.

In in the real world, even high-performing companies miss deadlines. Bandwidth, scope creep, new transactions, the "perfect storm," all factors that don't leave covenants neatly tucked away for another year. Here's what you need to know - and do - if your audit deadline came and went before your final report did.