You can use the Contract Audit Follow-up (CAFU) Home Page to access work functions needed by choosing from the top menu bar. To gain access to the Menu Page/ Menu Bar, you must be successfully logged on to the eTools and open the eTools Contract Audit Follow-up.  If you are not a DCMA user, you must gain access to this tool by registering with EWAM and choosing CAFU in the 'Toolset Details'.

Note: The Menu Bar on the Home Page has the following choices:  My Work | My Workgroup | Audits

Click "My Work" to enter into the work currently assigned to you. From there, you will see the next Menu Bar and can make the choice to edit your work/ audit records.

Click on "My Workgroup" to see the Contracting Officer (CO) listings and workload assignment for your location/contract management office.

Click on "Audits" to see current audit report listings of audits assigned to you and/or to your contract management office.
To chose only the audits assigned to you after entering through the "Audits" selection, chose "Just My Work" on the right top of the screen under the Menu Bar.

Definitions and guidance will be accessible throughout the navigation. You will see descriptions/narrative on the screens which state what area you are in and what you can do in the particular screen. The CAFU Users Manual will be linked at several points throughout the workflow.

New terminology to become familiar with:

Workflow - The process an audit record follows
Pipeline - Series of stages the audit record proceeds through
Plan -  Early stage where the Target Dates are entered
Deferred - Date went to Litigation or Criminal Investigation 
Forward - Enter date the CO Memo was forwarded to DCAA

Note: there will be screens where only certain information/data can be entered as the audit record proceeds through the pipeline but remarks can be input in the "Remarks" area at any stage.

eTools

All DCMA web applications contain common elements: the menu bar allows you to choose the right action; dialog boxes help you to input the right information; and the calendar is a plus...you will never get out of your application without a date.

For detailed information on how to use eTools and its features, just refer to the DCMA Web Application Common Elements Manual.

Please refer to the links to the left to access the CAFU 3.5 Reports Training Materials.

The data found in CAFU reports and cubes comes from the Contract Audit Follow-Up (CAFU) 3.5 Application and the SDW (also known as IDB).  Data in SDW is populated from MOCAS.  MOCAS, a mainframe application, is the prime source for contract related information.  A nightly job extracts data from MOCAS and loads it into local SDW tables that all applications can utilize. The CAFU reports list includes a series of status reports which provide the user the ability to see the status of all audits based on length of time overage.

These reports include:

• CAFU Status Over 12 Months Report
• CAFU Status 6 to 12 Months Report
• CAFU Status Less than 6 Months Report
• CAFU Status In Litigation Report
• CAFU Status Involved in Criminal Investigation Report
• CAFU Status Closed Report
• CAFU Historical Status Report
• CAFU Monthly Status Report
• CAFU Semi-Annual Report
• CAFU Semi-Annual Open Report
• CAFU Semi-Annual Closed Report

New data fields:

• Qualification or Unresolved Cost (received from DCAA)
• Questioned Cost Subject to Penalty (received from DCAA)
• Penalty Assessed (Yes/No radio buttons)
• Penalty Amount (entered by CO, whole dollars)
• Interest Amount (entered by CO, whole dollars)
• Penalty Date Assessed (entered by CO, format dd/mm/yyyy)
• Penalty Waiver Date (entered by CO, format dd/mm/yyyy)

These new data fields will capture:

• Whether or not a penalty was recommended by DCAA
• Whether or not a penalty was assessed by the CO
• Penalty Amount
• Interest Amount
• Date penalty was assessed
• Penalty Waiver date (field will only populate if NO was selected on penalty assessed by CO)

Update data fields:

• Increase character counts for Remarks area (from 500 to 2,500)

• Allow system assigned Target Resolution date and Target Disposition date to remain until the CO or Monitor changes them.

• Change the screen Disposition Deferred Audit Follow-Up Record to Disposition or Defer Audit Follow-Up Record.

• Make the Forward feature a requirement when entering a Disposition Actual Date (Only for Reportables) 
• Add a notice when using the Forward feature (Only for Reportables)
•  Add four types of email notifications
  

• Add new data fields in the CAFU Semi Annual Open Report
• Add new data fields in the CAFU Semi Annual Closed Report
• Increase the width of the drop-down box in the report viewer so the full names of the contracting office is viewable