Methods of Allocation. Cost of service will be determined in accordance with the Act and the rules and regulations and orders thereunder, and will include all costs of doing business incurred by KENG, including a reasonable return on capital, and all associated taxes. KENG will maintain an accounting system for accumulating all costs on a project, activity or other appropriate basis. The accounting system will use codes to assign charges to the applicable costs center, project, activity and account. Records will be kept by each cost center of KENG in order to accumulate all costs of doing business. Expenses of the department will include salaries and wages of employees, materials and supplies and all other expenses attributable to the department. Labor cost will be loaded for fringe benefits and payroll taxes. To the extent practicable, time records of hours worked by service company employees will be kept by project and activity. In supplying services, KENG may arrange where it deems appropriate, for the services of experts, consultants, advisors and other persons with necessary qualifications as are required to perform such services. KENG will establish annual budgets for controlling the expenses of each department. Monthly KENG costs will be directly assigned to Client Companies where possible. Amounts that cannot be directly assigned will be allocated to Client Companies by means of equitable allocation formulae or clearing accounts. To the extent possible such allocations shall be based on cost-causation relationships. All other allocations will be broad based. In some instances, KENG cost centers which perform work for other service company cost centers may use a surrogate allocation method that mimics the allocations of the receiver cost center. Each formula will have an appropriate basis such as meters, square footage, etc. Each Client Company will take agreed upon services and such additional or general or special services, whether or not now contemplated, as are requested from time to time by such Client Company and which KENG concludes it is able to perform. No amendment, alteration or rescission of an activity or project shall release a Client Company from liability for all costs already incurred by, or contracted for, by KENG pursuant to the project or activity regardless of whether the services associated with such costs have been completed. Allocation percentages will be calculated on historical data where appropriate and updated annually. Due to the unique nature...
Methods of Allocation. Internal Auditing services will be allocated to the Operating Companies and affected affiliates based on the average of the Revenue Ratio, the Total Construction Expenditures Ratio and the Total Common Equity Ratio, with 20 Percent of Common Equity assigned to New Century Energies, Inc.
Methods of Allocation. Cost of service will be determined in accordance with the Act and the rules and regulations and orders thereunder, and will include all costs of doing business incurred by KUS, including a reasonable return on capital which will reflect a capitalization of KUS of no more than equity of ten percent (10%), and all associated taxes. KUS will maintain an accounting system for accumulating all costs on a project, activity or other appropriate basis. The accounting system will use codes to assign charges to the applicable costs center, project, activity and account. Records will be kept by each cost center of KUS in order to accumulate all costs of doing business. Expenses of the department will include salaries and wages of employees, materials and supplies and all other expenses attributable to the department. Labor cost will be loaded for fringe benefits and payroll taxes. To the extent practicable, time records of hours worked by all service company employees, including all officers of such company (i.e., Chief Executive Officer, President and Vice Presidents), will be kept by project and activity. In supplying services, KUS may arrange where it deems appropriate, for the services of experts, consultants, advisors and other persons with necessary qualifications as are required to perform such services. KUS will establish annual budgets for controlling the expenses of each department. Monthly KUS costs will be directly assigned to Client Companies where possible. Amounts that cannot be directly assigned will be allocated to Client Companies by means of equitable allocation formulae or clearing accounts. To the extent possible, such allocations shall be based on cost-causation relationships. All other allocations will be broad based. In some instances, KUS cost centers which perform work for other service company cost centers may use a surrogate allocation method that mimics the allocations of the receiver cost center. Each formula will have an appropriate basis such as meters, square footage, etc. Each Client Company will take agreed upon services and such additional or general or special services, whether or not now contemplated, as are requested from time to time by such Client Company and which KUS concludes it is able to perform. No amendment, alteration or rescission of an activity or project shall release a Client Company from liability for all costs already incurred by, or contracted for, by KUS pursuant to the project or activity regardless of whether...
Methods of Allocation. Executive Management indirect costs will be allocated based on a three-factor formula that is comprised of the average of the Revenue Ratio, the Employee Ratio and the Asset Ratio with 15 percent of Assets assigned to Black Hills.
Methods of Allocation. Investor Relations indirect costs will be allocated based on a three-factor formula that is comprised of the average of the Revenue Ratio, the Employee Ratio and the Asset Ratio with 15 percent of Assets assigned to Black Hills.
Methods of Allocation. Human Resources indirect costs will be allocated based on the Employee Ratio.
Methods of Allocation. The following Basis of Allocation have been approved by the SEC as a method of allocating Job Order charges and convenience payments directly to Associate Companies.
Methods of Allocation. The Plan Administration Committee will allocate net income, gain or loss to Participant Accounts in accordance with the daily valuation method, balance forward method, weighted average method, or other method the Plan Administration Committee elects from time to time. The Plan Administration Committee may elect alternative methods of allocation under which the Plan Administration Committee will allocate the net income, gain or loss to the different Account types which the Plan Administration Committee maintains under the Plan. If the Plan Administration Committee elects to apply a weighted average allocation method, the Plan Administration Committee will treat a weighted portion of the applicable contributions as if includible in the Participant’s Account as of the beginning of the valuation period. The weighted portion is a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of months in the valuation period, excluding each month in the valuation period which begins prior to the contribution date of the applicable contributions, and the denominator of which is the number of months in the valuation period. The Plan Administration Committee may elect to substitute a weighting period other than months for purposes of this weighted average allocation. If the Plan Administration Committee elects to apply the daily valuation method, the Plan Administration Committee will allocate the net income, gain or loss on each day of the Plan Year for which Plan assets are valued on an established market. If the Plan Administration Committee elects to apply the balance forward method, the Plan Administration Committee first will adjust the Participant Accounts, as those Accounts stood at the beginning of the current valuation period, by reducing the Accounts for any Forfeitures arising under the Plan, for amounts charged during the valuation period to the Accounts in accordance with Section 9.13 (relating to distributions) and for insurance premiums and for the cash value of incidental benefit insurance contracts, if applicable to the Accounts. The Plan Administration Committee then, subject to the restoration allocation requirements of the Plan, will allocate the net income, gain or loss pro rata to the adjusted Participant Accounts. The allocable net income, gain or loss is the net income (or net loss), including the increase or decrease in the fair market value of assets, since the last valuation date.
