Processes

Collect indirect costs

How collect indirect costs are reshaped as AGI capability advances.

ProcessesCollect indirect costs
Collect indirect costs — illustrated

The bottom line

Roughly 85% of the work in Collect indirect costs is information-shaped — already within reach of AI delivery. The question here is not whether it shifts, but which tasks go first and who staffs the residual.

Why: Because there are no child occupations seeded for this composite, the scalar is derived from the process name 'Collect indirect costs'. This is fundamentally a financial and cost accounting task that relies entirely on information transformation—gathering data from ERPs, running calculations, and manipulating ledgers—placing it solidly in the high digital band typical of financial resource management.

grounded in the economy graph · digital scalar 0.85 · digital

Business-as-Code

Read as an executable program — the work decomposed into Code, Generative, Agentic, and Human.

Collect indirect costs sits inside a larger value-flow — 1 parent structure it composes into. The hierarchy is grounding, not the story: it tells you which aggregate exposure Collect indirect costs inherits.

Where Collect indirect costs sits

Related articles

No articles yet for this entity.

Recent capability events

No capability events for this entity yet.

How the work flows

Trigger: The general ledger records operating expenditures that cannot be directly attributed to a single product, project, or contract.

  1. Extract indirect expense data from the general ledger.
  2. Segregate unallowable costs in compliance with regulatory and contract standards.
  3. Categorize allowable indirect costs into designated cost pools such as fringe, overhead, and general and administrative.
  4. Reconcile accumulated pool balances with financial statements.
  5. Finalize indirect cost totals for subsequent allocation to specific programs.

Outcome: Indirect costs are accumulated, validated against regulatory frameworks, and aggregated into designated cost pools ready for allocation.

Measured by

Indirect Cost Collection Cycle TimeUnallowable Cost Error RateCost Pool Reconciliation AccuracyOverhead Rate Variance