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Discover LudwigThe phrase "allocating overhead costs" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to accounting, finance, or business management when discussing the distribution of indirect costs to various departments or products.
Example: "The company is focusing on allocating overhead costs more effectively to improve overall profitability."
Alternatives: "distributing indirect costs" or "assigning overhead expenses".
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In addition, CMS gives specific instructions on the cost bases for allocating overhead costs (e.g. square footage for maintenance and repairs, or patient days for laundry services).
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Once you allocate overhead costs, such as depreciation ($663m, which Amtrak treats as a company-wide cost as it has yet to produce a formula for allocating it to individual routes), the picture for the rail network looks grim.
There are several methods to allocate overhead costs to disease-specific direct costs.
An ingredients based model of the franchise services and those of supporting PSI-departments was utilized to allocate overhead costs.
We allocated overhead costs to all patients who attended the facilities, including those who were only screened, but did not receive the expected interventions.
The breakfast menu, meanwhile, aids profit margins by letting the company allocate overhead costs across more revenue and operating hours.
To prepare for the expected split, it had begun focusing on reducing costs, allocating overhead and determining which products are the most profitable.
Another culprit that undermines many companies' ability to offer free products is the cost accounting system, which is excellent for averaging costs across large numbers of products and then allocating overhead but not for identifying the actual cost of the last product or service sold.
Allocating overhead from the administrative units at headquarters was based on the proportion of commodity costs attributed to the franchising program.
As a result, managers often undermine their company's market-creating efforts by starving them of resources, allocating undue overhead costs to the initiatives, or not cooperating with the people working on them.
We allocated hospital overhead costs to final HIV-related services using a "stepping-down" approach [ 18].
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