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.

For example, a grant might cover 100% of direct costs but only a portion of indirect costs. This means I need to be clear ...

Discover how cost accounting treats overhead expenses, how those expenses are different from direct labor, and what counts as overhead.

Indirect costs (Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs) are charged to externally sponsored ... or private sponsors. The application of these rates allows UB to recover certain costs (for example, ...

Despite claims by the Trump administration that indirect costs are an example of wasteful, “difficult to oversee” spending on the part of universities, the DOE—like the NIH—has not yet presented any ...

A coalition of research universities and higher education advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the Department of Energy, asking a judge to immediately block the department’s plan to ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, has an indirect cost rate of 59%. That doesn’t mean that 59% of NSF grants awarded to MIT scientists go toward the university’s indirect ...

Indirect costs are fat targets for budget slashers, but beware: They make science possible. They don’t pay for the ...

What are indirect research costs? A quick explainer in light of NIH’s sweeping policy change. But even under the current government rules, these reimbursements don’t actually fully cover the F ...

As of Monday, the NIH’s new policy to cap indirect cost reimbursement rates to 15 percent of a given grant, regardless of institution location, scale, or initiative, is in effect.