.... This method was used to get the consortium off the ground, and is limited to two years, i.e. each library pays a$6,000 flat fee for the first two years of the consortium's operation. PALCI is now beginning to discuss what cost allocation method should be used beginning with the third year of operation...

... on readily available data and statistics. The new Assessment Task Force is expected to complete its report by the spring of 2000. © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Finance Cost allocation Academic libraries Keywords Finance, Cost allocation, Academic libraries (Columnist's note...

...Herbert Snyder; Elisabeth Davenport Better managerial control in terms of decision making and understanding the total costs of a system or service result from allocating indirect costs. Allocation requires a three‐step process of selecting cost objectives, pooling related overhead costs...