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 ...

F&A [Facilities & Administrative] costs, also known as IER [Indirect Expense Recovery] or Indirect Costs, are real costs that are necessary to cover expenses which cannot be charged directly to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn about friction cost to make better informed decisions: its implications in investments and loans, and how it helps assess the true cost of financial transactions.

The National Institutes of Health has jolted the academic research community with its Friday announcement that it would cap reimbursement for “indirect costs” on the grants it awards to universities ...

The NIH is the largest source of funding for medical research in the United States. As WW has reported, between OHSU and ...

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 ...