Overhead vs. Operating Expenses: Key Differences Explained

Discover how overhead and operating expenses impact your business's profitability and learn the key differences between these essential cost categories.
The Daily Signal

Lies, Damn Lies, and University Research Overhead Costs

Jay Greene is a senior research fellow in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Defenders of 60% overhead rates, however, insist that they absolutely need this money to cover ...
Crain's Cleveland Business

Opinion: The big problem with NIH’s overhead cap for Cleveland and other cities

Late last Friday, Feb. 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it was immediately capping overhead rates on all research grants at 15%. Because most research universities rely on overhead ...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Grant Makers’ Simplistic Overhead Rates Shortchange Nonprofits, Report Says

The Ford Foundation works with thousands of nonprofits, each with different needs and structures. Yet its program grants pay for related indirect costs at a single rate — 20 percent of the grant. Such ...
Law

Facing Increasing Overhead, Midsize Firms Embrace Rate Hikes, Expense Management

"Our size constrains how comfortable we are raising our rates. I don't want to raise rates more than 4 or 5%, because our clients come to us because we offer something different than those big firms," ...
Investopedia

Understanding Applied Overhead: Definition, Processes, and Examples

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Tennessean

Capping National Institutes of Health overhead costs benefits the taxpayer | Opinion

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued guidance capping the “indirect costs” of all NIH grants at 15%. Universities such as Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard have been ...