The portion of the overhead charge returned to the secretariat will be sufficient to cover all administrative staff costs

Overhead Costs of International NGO Partners

a Costs do not include processes essential to translation, such as editing and referencing or shipping charges and administrative overhead.

5. Section I clarifies a number of issues related to the definition of administrative expenses and other overhead costs, including information costs, which are referred to as non programme costs.

Decision on Overhead Costs of International NGO Partners

Decision on Overhead Costs of International NGO Partners

Administrative overhead charges 648.0Assumes agreement with the United Nations on a 13 per cent overhead charge for 1999.

Decision on overhead costs of international non governmental organization partners.

Requests the Secretary General to review the administrative support structure for the quick impact projects with a view to minimizing overhead costs for their implementation

EC 48 SC CRP.18 Overhead Costs of International NGO Partners

In the UN case, the actual costs of providing administrative services, on which overhead charges would be based, would depend on the varying costs of the units most suited to provide services at different locations.

Administrative costs

Administrative costs

Administrative costs

1.171 To meet the emerging standards for business training and business development services (BDS), where all the direct costs of training are met from participation fees and only the overhead and administrative costs are subsidised from donor contributions.

Not all organizations have such an easy or logical way of assigning overhead costs.

VII. Overhead chargeStandard 13 per cent applied by the United Nations for administrative support.

Administrative support costs

1. Administrative costs

A. Administrative costs

Total administrative costs

B. To what degree would each institution absorb the costs of providing services and how would it deal with overhead costs?

Several delegations noted that in times of financial constraints, overhead costs need to be reduced.

Following standard practice, the Convention is required to pay a thirteen per cent overhead charge to the United Nations to cover the costs of the administrative services it provides to the Convention.

Overhead charge and its use In accordance with the financial procedures (decision 15 CP.1), the Convention budget is required to provide for a 13 per cent overhead charge to the United Nations to cover the costs of the administrative services which the United Nations provides to the Convention.

Total A. Administrative costs

Total, administrative support costs

That substantially decreases the overhead costs usually associated with United Nations operations and international donor programmes.

They felt that they would lead to greater transparency and comparability in relation to overhead costs.

This means that, in both cases, overhead charges for administrative support would also be location dependent.

The Department had correctly identified its priority management tasks, and the savings found in most administrative areas indicated that the Secretariat had focused seriously on the goal of securing significant reductions in overhead costs.

Current cost accounting theory suggests that the method of allocating overhead costs should be linked to any activities that are related to those costs.

The idea is to determine which overhead costs should be charged to the product and what activity should be used to allocate those costs.

(b) Systematically charging the 13 per cent of programme support costs (overhead) to programmes grants whenever possible.

The secretariat will seek overhead resources for additional administrative posts in the professional and general service categories.

C. Administrative and judicial costs

A. Administrative costs . 49 16

(l) Memorandum of understanding administrative costs Italian Air Force maintenance of roads runways and miscellaneous administrative costs ( 30,000).

Neither organisation would absorb the costs of providing relevant services. Rather, they would be covered by overhead charges.

The advantages of central management of contractual translation include economies of scale relating to the administrative overhead costs, a favourable bargaining position in contract negotiations with external translators and, perhaps most importantly, assurance of quality control.

The advantages of central management of contractual translation include economies of scale relating to the administrative overhead costs, a favourable bargaining position in contract negotiations with external translators and, perhaps most importantly, assurance of quality control.

The level of overhead charges would be determined once the source of administrative support has been decided. quot

A. Direct programme and administrative costs

Total administrative, investment and audit costs

Likewise, in order to minimize overhead costs, part of the office space was sublet to another United Nations office.