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 ...

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 ...

Good things come to those who wait. The tax-exempt bond industry has waited 18 years for a missing reserved section of the private activity bond regulations, the allocation and accounting regulations, ...

Pre-retirees and retirees may be understandably concerned about their exposure to stock market risk, particularly in these uncertain times. Let’s take a look at how a hypothetical 65-year-old couple ...

Cost accounting refers to the accounting procedures designed to assess the costs of production a business incurs. Managers typically use cost accounting as a budgeting tool for establishing cost ...

Investors need discipline when it comes to saving and investing consistently. To that end, most people set up an investment allocation amount: the authorization to incur expenses or liabilities for a ...