Knowing the difference between direct and indirect costs is important for pricing, taxes, and financial health. See how these expenses differ and why it matters.

A federal judge tossed out the National Science Foundation’s policy capping reimbursements for costs indirectly related to ...

A federal judge on June 20 rejected the National Science Foundation’s move to cap indirect costs related to its research grants at 15%, following similar decisions by other courts. Most universities ...

A coalition of universities, medical centers and other research institutions have pitched proposals on new funding models for how the federal government covers indirect costs that support research ...

There are differences between private returns or costs and the costs or returns to society as a whole. Consumption, production, and investment decisions of individuals, households, and firms often ...

A dozen universities are challenging the federal government's latest attempt to cut research funding for overhead expenses.

Indirect costs are fat targets for budget slashers, but beware: They make science possible. They don’t pay for the chromatograph I use in my experiments, but they do pay for the electricity to run it.

Johns Hopkins, Arizona State and Cornell Universities are among a coalition of 12 higher education institutions and three trade groups that filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense on Monday ...

The reason comes down to the difference between how much a trader buys or sells an option for and how much it's worth, resulting in so-called indirect transaction costs that far exceeded commissions.

While the 15% cap on indirect costs proposed by NIH is on par with what most foundations pay, universities have gone along with taking significantly less than their actual overhead costs from ...

The US National Institutes of Health is lowering the maximum “indirect cost rate” that research institutions can charge the government, the agency said late Friday – a move that scientists ...

Externalities pose fundamental economic policy problems when individuals, households, and firms do not internalize the indirect costs of or the benefits from their economic transactions. The resulting ...