Determining your overhead costs can help you learn which of your products and services are the most or least expensive to produce and which provide you with the biggest profit margins and return on ...

Manufacturing overhead is a term used to describe the indirect costs associated with making a product. Overhead costs are expenses required for the manufacturing process other than the direct costs of ...

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Last month, we provided an article on overhead calculation and rate. That was Overhead Rates 101. In this month’s guest column, Ken Hedlund, Somerset CPAs (somersetcpas.com), introduces a more ...

Every now and then, you must be controversial and address a subject where your beliefs run counter to common practice. Overhead and overhead-cost recovery is one of these subjects. The controversy has ...

As a former corporate controller and senior vice president of operations, I have experienced both sides of allocated overhead. I have learned manufacturing executives have more control over costs ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued guidance capping the “indirect costs” of all NIH grants at 15%. Universities such as Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard have been ...

Last fall, the International Rescue Committee mailed an eight-page newsletter to supporters that highlighted the work it was doing to help people displaced by famine, drought, and conflict in Africa’s ...

Melissa Horton is a financial literacy professional. She has 10+ years of experience in the financial services and planning industry. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with ...