Cost allocation serves several purposes. Also referred to as cost apportionment, this practice of identifying the source of an expense and assigning the cost accordingly is an important factor in ...

Every business has a mission and specific goals. Without proper budgeting, meeting those objectives would be impossible. As a business owner, you want to increase your return on investment, so that ...

The concepts of allowability, allocability, and reasonableness of costs address directly the legitimacy of a cost charged against a specific sponsored research award. Determination of allowability, ...

In a prior article, I wrote about the appeal of counting the Federal Government as a customer, because of the size of the government’s budget, as well as its creditworthiness. In that article, I ...

In the first article of this series of articles related to selling to the federal government, I discussed federal acquisition regulations (FAR), cost accounting standards (CAS) and the types of ...

Federal regulations require that similar costs be treated consistently as either direct costs or indirect costs, in like circumstances. This regulation imposes a requirement on the University to ...

This policy statement has been updated to reflect the U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (2 CFR, ...

Air Force Materiel Command captured more than $2.5 billion in cost savings for fiscal 2017, the second fiscal year in a row the command has achieved its strategic savings objective. “Financial ...