Paul Calabrese is a principle in the consulting group of Gelman, Rosenberg and Freedman, providing accounting and consulting services to the firm’s government contracting and nonprofit grant clients. His area of expertise includes the Uniform Guidance for Federal grants compliance and management with respect to policies and procedures for grants manuals, sub-recipient financial monitoring, training, and the development of over (100) negotiated indirect cost rates from indirect cost rate proposals.
On the Federal procurement side, Mr. Calabrese was an auditor for the Defense Contract Audit Agency and was also employed by 3 government contractors to the position of controller. Mr. Calabrese has considerable experience with the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) and CAS disclosure statements, Federal Acquisition Regulation Cost Principles (FAR), Department of Defense FAR Supplement.
With respect to training via webinars and seminars, he has presented several firm webinars between 2012 and 2017 on the OMB Circulars as they changed to the new Uniform Guidance. He has also presented for numerous state CPA societies and other organizations on grants compliance and management under the prior OMB Circulars and Uniform Guidance.