Cost accounting covers variable costs, fixed costs, direct costs, indirect costs, operating costs, opportunity costs, sunk costs, and controllable costs. Cost accounting is an accounting method ...

The funding agency aims to cap “indirect costs” in biomedical research grants. But this behind-the-scenes work is crucial to making research happen.

Of course the effects will vary across research institutions, as institutions differ markedly in their operating models and ...

The Trump administration’s decision to cap how much NIH will pay for indirect costs on university research grants would cost ...

Biomedical research in the U.S. is world-class in part because of a long-standing partnership between universities and the ...

In a move that has woken the biomedical research community, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on Friday, ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest single source of health care research funding in the U.S. The Trump ...

The NIH said capping indirect cost payments will save billions of dollars. Universities said it will disrupt vital, life-saving research.

The National Institutes of Health announced on Friday that it would be capping a type of funding for medical research at ...

Of that amount, about $26 billion went to direct costs for research, while $9 billion was allocated to overhead through NIH’s indirect cost rate. As a justification for the decision, NIH pointed ...