From clean toilets to working computers, your company incurs many costs that it cannot assign to one particular "cost object" -- a product, project, department or service. You must nonetheless cover ...

Companies use cost allocation to accurately determine the costs associated with production. Cost allocation tells the company what it spends on overhead during production process so accounting ...

Federal regulations require that similar costs be treated consistently as either direct costs or indirect costs, in like circumstances. This regulation imposes a requirement on the University to ...

Not-for-profit entities (NFPs) are under constant pressure to devote an increasing portion of their expenditures to accomplishing their mission programs. While this goal sounds appealing, the NFP must ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Investopedia / Yurle Villegas The aggregate level cost method refers to an actuarial ...

The IRS issued proposed regulations that affect taxpayers who produce or resell property and allocate costs under the simplified production method or simplified resale method (REG-126770-06). The ...

That’s the domain of FinOps, a practice that has gained traction in recent years. FinOps combines finance, operations and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Health departments in developing countries are increasingly turning to financial cost-accounting studies to help inform their management and ...