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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Managing business expenses remains one of the most persistent challenges for growing organizations, affecting everything from cash flow to employee satisfaction. What should be a straightforward ...

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 ...

What Is a Cost Transfer? A cost transfer is an after-the-fact reallocation of costs, salary or non-salary to or from a sponsored project. To request a cost transfer involving a sponsored project, you ...

Not all forms of accounting are the same. Some focus on costs, others on audits and some focus on taxes. While having a solid handle on your business’s finances is essential, how you track business ...