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What are cost transfers and why do we monitor them so closely? A Cost Transfer is the transfer of an expenditure, or cost, that initially posted to one project or account and is then transferred to ...
Indirect Costs, also known as Facilities and Administrative Costs (F&A) or overhead, are institutional costs that are not specifically allocable to individual sponsored projects but are real costs ...
Nearly two months after the Feb. 7 executive order from the National Institute of Health attempting to slash overhead funding ...
The NIH has proposed capping indirect costs to universities at 15%, which experts say could impact the Connecticut economy.
If the sponsor does not have a policy limiting Indirect Costs (IDC/F&A) and the Principal Investigator (PI) requests reduced IDC for a budget, CU Boulder requires an Indirect Cost Reduction or Waiver ...
The obsession with indirect costs and the quest to find the perfect indirect cost ratio has sent foundations and other donors down a dangerous path. Those of us who manage organizations find it to be ...
A cut to the reimbursement of necessary research costs is a cut to research, plain and simple,” writes Barbara R. Snyder, ...
The cost of these taxes is built into the price of products or services, often going unnoticed by consumers. Indirect taxes ...
Ten national organizations — including the Association of American Medical Colleges — have teamed up to develop a new funding ...
The U.S. government has funded university research for nearly 80 years, with a significant share of this funding supporting the fixed costs of science through indirect cost recovery (ICR). We explain ...