Small businesses that manufacture products are required to account for all of the costs of production. One of these costs, overhead, is the cost of production that cannot be individually traced to ...

From clean toilets to working computers, your company incurs many costs that it cannot assign to one particular "cost object" -- a product, project, department or service. You must nonetheless cover ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...