Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) With electronic funds transfer (EFT), government agencies can pay and collect money electronically, without having to use paper checks. EFT is safe, secure, efficient, and less expensive than paper check payments and collections. Each time the government pays by check, it costs $1.03 (just over a dollar).
Definition of overhead. 1  1 : business expenses (as rent, insurance, or heating) not chargeable to a particular part of the work or product. 2  2 : ceiling; especially : the ceiling of a ship's compartment. 3  3 : a stroke in a racket game made above head height : smash.
Overheads are often related to accounting concepts such as fixed costs and indirect costs. Overhead expenses are all costs on the income statement except for direct labor, direct materials, and direct expenses. Overhead expenses include accounting fees, advertising, insurance, interest, legal fees, labor burden, rent, repairs, supplies, taxes, telephone bills, travel expenditures, and utilities. There are essentially two types of business overheads.