{"id":67622,"key":"How_Accounting_Costs_Science_Millions_a_Year","title":"How Accounting Costs Science Millions a Year","latest":{"id":1205443,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T15:35:32Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[Image:Overheadwaste.png|thumb]]\n\nThe arbitrary $5000 lower limit for defined equipment purchases in the U.S. results in millions of dollars of lost science funding per year.\n\n{{MOST}}\n\n{{Pearce publications notice}}\n\n== Summary in ''Science'' ==\n\n* Joshua M. Pearce. [http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6282/158.2 Undermined by overhead accounting]. ''Science'' 352, 158–159 (2016). doi:10.1126/science.352.6282.158-b\n\n== Detailed account in ''ZME Science'' ==\n\n* J.M. Pearce. [http://www.zmescience.com/science/antiquated-accounting-costs-millions/ How Antiquated Accounting Costs American Science Millions a Year]. ''ZME Science'' 3.9.2016.\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:economics]]\n[[Category:science]]"}