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 ...

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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 ...

Cost accounting examines how a company spends money. All expenses are recorded and analyzed in detail and then reported to management, who uses this information to identify ways to increase efficiency ...

There are many inputs related to the production of goods and services, not to mention the associated production costs. These expenses can be divided into different categories. Direct costs and ...

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 ...

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