Every business leader should probably have at least a rudimentary understanding of accounting. It’s not about becoming an accountant; it’s just about knowing enough not to get fooled or fool yourself.

Allocating direct costs to production is pretty straightforward -- you know what the materials and direct labor costs. The hard part is determining the amount of overhead to allocate to finished goods ...

For Android or Apple platforms Relies on banking information, regression analysis, and an accurate yearly overhead budget Produces both labor/equipment and material/subcontract rates For Android or ...

Identify cost driver for the overhead cost, and the total amount of cost driver in a multi-product production or multi-service offering. A cost driver is a business activity responsible for change in ...

Overhead allocation in construction is a way to share costs across multiple jobs. Why on earth would you do that? Simple: these are the costs your projects share responsibility for anyway — they’re ...

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Proper job costing includes all costs associated with a job They include materials, labor, permits, subcontractors, equipment rentals and overhead costs applied to the job How do we allocate the ...

We lost a little bit, but the job still made money.” As a construction business owner, you know that “making money” at the project level does not necessarily equate to a profit on the project after ...

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 ...

There are many costs associated with running a business, but all of those costs don’t fall into the same bucket. One type is overhead costs, which are expenses not tied directly to the production of a ...

Implementation of full cost accounting in FY 2004 created problems for NASA’s research Centers when a complex allocation of overhead costs disproportionately inflated their costs compared to the ...

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 ...