What Are the Types of Costs in Cost Accounting?
Indirect costs are expenses not directly linked to making products or delivering services. In the case of an automaker’s ...
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Externalities: Prices Do Not Capture All Costs
In the case of pollution—the traditional example of a negative externality—a polluter makes decisions based only on the direct cost of and profit opportunity from production and does not consider the ...
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Indirect (Facilities and Administrative) Cost Recovery and Distribution Policy
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 ...
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What Are Externalities?
In the case of pollution—the traditional example of a negative externality—a polluter makes decisions based only on the direct cost of and profit opportunity from production and does not consider the ...
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America Will Pay Dearly for Trump’s Mindless War on Science
At least, it used to. On February 7, the NIH announced a 15 percent cap on indirect costs—an allowance that previously has averaged about 30 percent across the nation. For UNC, it meant a 40 ...
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NIH’s 15% Indirect Cost Cap Could Cripple Research, Scientists Say
On February 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued supplemental guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates. The guidance declared that the indirect cost rate ...