Discover what labor costs encompass, their categories—direct and indirect—and why they matter in pricing strategies to maintain profitability.

Discover how to calculate variable overhead spending variance, its impact on costs, and examples of favorable vs. unfavorable variances in business operations.

Funding direct costs supports the expenses that can be specifically identified with a particular project such as researchers, supplies and travel. Funding indirect costs supports the critical ...

Americans will have one fewer free option to file their taxes in 2026 after the Trump administration killed IRS Direct File. Without it, Direct File supporters said Americans will end up spending more ...

FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - Healthcare costs are set to rise in Michigan next year, prompting some families to explore alternatives for affordable medical care. Direct primary care allows patients to pay ...

Expense growth is accelerating — Both direct and overhead costs are rising faster than in Q1, posing a potential risk if revenue growth slows. Law firms are adapting strategically — With Am Law 100 ...

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. Facing billions of dollars in proposed cuts to research overhead payments from the ...

United Illuminating President and CEO Frank Reynolds stands outside a Connecticut Natural Gas operations center in East Hartford after an interview with the Hartford Business Journal in November 2023.

Two months after the National Institutes of Health unilaterally capped indirect research cost reimbursement rates at 15 percent—which a federal judge has permanently blocked—the Department of Energy ...

In a 2023 report, McKinsey & Company projected 35 GW of new power will be needed for data centers in the U.S. by 2030. This forecast doubled the required power consumption from data servers, up from ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. One of the key justifications the Trump administration has offered ...

On Feb. 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued guidance limiting how much of the “indirect costs” (IDC) of scientific research it would pay. While the topic is arcane, it has massive ...