Financial reports such as balance sheets and profit and loss statements show a company's financial health at the time of the report, but they may not always show the full picture. These statements do ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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