Q. I don't have a college education. Can you explain to me, and the many others like me, the precise difference between the "current rate of inflation" and the "cost of living?" We are told that ...

The University of Minnesota is preparing to change its definition of administrative costs in its budget proposals to the Minnesota Legislature, altering the amount of money the institution attributes ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Yarilet Perez is an experienced ...

The cost of labor is the amount of employee wages and benefits, plus payroll taxes paid by an employer. The cost of labor can be broken into direct and indirect costs. Direct labor costs are those ...

Companies focus on their fixed costs to maximize profits at the end of the fiscal year. If a company's fixed costs are too high, the company might not create a profit for that fiscal period.

Last month, a federal district court in California ruled on a dispute over the meaning of a life insurance policy provision stating that the “[c]urrent monthly cost of insurance rates will be ...