Direct costs can include expenses like pay for employees who provide goods or services and any money needed to purchase and maintain specialized equipment. — Getty Images/aldomurillo In financial ...

Companies are always looking for ways to save money. They may have already cut costs in areas like manufacturing and shipping. Now, they're turning to a hidden area where they can save more money ...

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 ...

Funding direct costs supports the expenses that can be specifically identified with a particular project such as researchers, supplies and travel. Funding indirect costs supports the critical ...

Welcome back to the Cost Corner, where we provide practical insight into the complex cost and pricing requirements that apply to Government contractors. This is the second article in a multi-part ...

In the first article of this series of articles related to selling to the federal government, I discussed federal acquisition regulations (FAR), cost accounting standards (CAS) and the types of ...

Indirect costs (Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs) are charged to externally sponsored awards, unless specifically prohibited by the funding agency. A percentage of indirect (F&A) costs ...

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 ...