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Accounting: Data Behind Functional Expense Reporting

The NonProfit Times

Indirect allocation is the more complex method and should be used when the cost benefits multiple functions. The most common allocation methodologies for indirect allocation include employee time and square footage. Square footage percentages can be used to allocate rent, depreciation, certain insurances, and utilities.

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7 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Build a Strong Financial Foundation in 2024

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Calculate Your Indirect Cost Rate Complete and correct cost allocation is key to the financial stability of your organization. If you aren’t including indirect costs—such as salaries or rent—into your funding requests or program planning, you are setting yourself up for stress later in the year.

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Breaking Down the Budget

Grant Geek

Staying within the guidelines of the grant can sometimes include the maximum or minimum funding requests, cost per participant, and maximum caps on administration costs and indirect. Fringe includes the insurance and benefits for the staff. Indirect costs may be either fixed or variable.

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Introduction to Nonprofit Program Budgets

Grant Writing Made Easy

Indirect Expenses: These include administrative and overhead costs, all the costs of all departments outside of the program department, such as finance, human resources, and development. Fringe Benefits: This includes the cost of benefits given to personnel of the program, such as, health insurance, paid time off, pension, etc.

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Your Unrestricted Funds Need Stewardship, Too

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Many don’t cover operating costs or have a small allotment for indirect costs such as salaries, insurance, and utilities. So, the organizations behind the grants use the reporting requirements to make sure the funds go towards addressing those impact areas. Restricted funds often outline what they will fund and what they won’t.

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Understanding Nonprofit HR: What Sets It Apart?

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Experts in the field recommend taking a total rewards approach, which emphasizes offering a holistic set of benefits that include direct compensation as well as indirect compensation (such as healthcare, paid time off, retirement plans, and more). Your HR department can help create and maintain this type of strategy. Regulatory compliance.

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Nonprofit Accounting Basics: 5 Fundamentals to Know

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As NXUnite’s guide to nonprofit human resources explains, the policy should include information about indirect compensation such as health insurance and paid time off in addition to direct compensation like salaries and bonuses. This policy provides guidelines for how your employees are compensated for their work at your organization.

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