Overhead costs are expenses tied to things other than the production of goods or services. Here's how to calculate overhead.

Understanding the cost of each unit you produce is essential to ensure your business remains profitable. To calculate the cost per unit, add all of your fixed costs and all of your variable costs ...

The high-low method is used in cost accounting to estimate fixed and variable costs based on a business's highest and lowest levels of activity. By focusing on these extremes, the high-low method ...

Incremental cost is an important calculation for understanding numbers at different levels of scale. The calculation is used to display change in cost as production rises. If you manufacture one unit ...

Last month, we discussed various pricing methods, and how aggressive pricing models do not necessarily generate operating losses if one controls costs in sync with aggressive pricing to generate a ...

(The video above features cost-accounting tips in a discussion with Eric Harley of Red Eye Radio, ATBS' Mike Hosted and Overdrive contributor and owner-operator business coach Gary Buchs, from a talk ...