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.

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 ...

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 is a source of great disagreement in our industry. Should the allocation be based on job price? On job cost? Per project? Or per field man-hour. We understand the pros and cons of ...

Manufacturing overhead is applied to products on the basis of a predetermined overhead rate. This rate is calculated as the total estimated overhead for the period divided by the estimated activity ...

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 ...

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