Whether you're planning a budget or request grant funds, understanding and listing direct costs accurately on your plan helps ensure adequate funds to pay for your project. Listing direct costs helps ...

You can track your small business' manufacturing costs several ways, but the most important thing you must do is separate direct costs and labor costs. This lets you know where you are spending your ...

In financial accounting and taxes, attributing expenses to the correct category isn’t just a tip or guideline; it’s a requirement when filing IRS forms, requesting grant funds, or reporting to ...

A new Technical Question and Answer (TQA) issued by the AICPA discusses the characteristics of expenses that would be considered “direct care of existing collections” under a new FASB standard that ...

Indirect costs, also known as facilities and administrative (F&A) costs or overhead, are expenses incurred by an organization in support of its overall operations that cannot be easily attributed to a ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Direct contracting in employee benefits has become a much ...

One reason that safety initiatives can struggle to achieve sufficient support is that those of us responsible for safety in our organizations haven’t consistently conveyed the total injury costs to ...

Form 8829 is used to claim the home office deduction by calculating the business-related portion of home expenses.

There are many costs associated with running a business, but all of those costs don’t fall into the same bucket. One type is overhead costs, which are expenses not tied directly to the production of a ...

What are cost transfers and why do we monitor them so closely? A Cost Transfer is the transfer of an expenditure, or cost, that initially posted to one project or account and is then transferred to ...