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“General and administrative (G&A) expense” means any management, financial, and other expense which is incurred by or allocated to a business unit and which is for the general management and administration of the business unit as a whole. G&A expense does not include those management expenses whose beneficial or causal relationship to cost objectives can be more directly measured by a base other than a cost input base representing the total activity of a business unit during a cost accounting period. <ref>FAR 2.1</ref>
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“General and administrative (G&A) expense” means any management, financial, and other expense which is incurred by or allocated to a business unit and which is for '''the general management and administration of the business unit as a whole'''. G&A expense does not include those management expenses whose beneficial or causal relationship to cost objectives can be more directly measured by a base other than a cost input base representing the total activity of a business unit during a cost accounting period. <ref>FAR 2.1</ref>
  
 
Examples of G&A costs are the presidents salary, the accounting function, and sales and marketing.  
 
Examples of G&A costs are the presidents salary, the accounting function, and sales and marketing.  

Revision as of 08:29, 9 May 2014


“General and administrative (G&A) expense” means any management, financial, and other expense which is incurred by or allocated to a business unit and which is for the general management and administration of the business unit as a whole. G&A expense does not include those management expenses whose beneficial or causal relationship to cost objectives can be more directly measured by a base other than a cost input base representing the total activity of a business unit during a cost accounting period. [1]

Examples of G&A costs are the presidents salary, the accounting function, and sales and marketing.

References and Notes

  1. FAR 2.1