As a small business owner, allocating costs through an accounting system is a necessary task. The process requires you to assign costs so that all components included in that cost are divided ...

To stay profitable, a company has to determine the total expense of providing its products or services. Often, companies break these costs down on a department-by-department basis, by company program ...

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 ...

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Cost approvers receive email notifications when expense reports are submitted for their approval and have 13 days to act on a report. Click the link in the email to log in to Concur to allocate and ...

Ali Hussain has a background that consists of a career in finance with large financial institutions and in journalism covering business. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, ...

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 ...

Caroline Banton has 6+ years of experience as a writer of business and finance articles. She also writes biographies for Story Terrace. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has ...

Gregory Milano is founder and CEO of Fortuna Advisors LLC and author of Curing Corporate Short-Termism, Future Growth vs. Current Earnings. “The perfect is the enemy of the good,” an aphorism often ...