Every business has a mission and specific goals. Without proper budgeting, meeting those objectives would be impossible. As a business owner, you want to increase your return on investment, so that ...

In a prior article, I wrote about the appeal of counting the Federal Government as a customer, because of the size of the government’s budget, as well as its creditworthiness. In that article, I ...

In the first article of this series of articles related to selling to the federal government, I discussed federal acquisition regulations (FAR), cost accounting standards (CAS) and the types of ...

Until now, cost accounting as a useful tool in hospital financial decision-making has been widely ignored. Although the RCC (ratio of cost to charges) approach still used by 70 percent of healthcare ...

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This guide was reviewed by a Business News Daily editor to ensure it provides comprehensive and accurate information to aid your buying decision. The cost principle is an important part of financial ...

Cost accounting is an essential activity for laboratory animal facility management. Reasons for carrying out cost accounting include establishing the actual costs of facility operations; assessing ...

Cost accounting in healthcare has never been more important, but is often considered too difficult, expensive or resource intensive for many healthcare organizations. Additionally, other critical ...

In honor of the release of the 6th Edition of the Government Contracts Compliance Handbook, we are sharing six essential tips for complying with the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS). CAS compliance is ...

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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 ...