In financial accounting and taxes, attributing expenses to the correct category isn’t just a tip or guideline; it’s a requirement when filing IRS forms, requesting grant funds, or reporting to ...

Indirect costs, also known as facilities and administrative (F&A) costs or overhead, are expenses incurred by an organization in support of its overall operations that cannot be easily attributed to a ...

Funding direct costs supports the expenses that can be specifically identified with a particular project such as researchers, supplies and travel. Funding indirect costs supports the critical ...

F&A [Facilities & Administrative] costs, also known as IER [Indirect Expense Recovery] or Indirect Costs, are real costs that are necessary to cover expenses which cannot be charged directly to a ...

Indirect costs (Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs) are charged to externally sponsored awards, unless specifically prohibited by the funding agency. A percentage of indirect (F&A) costs ...

Since 1947, the federal government has provided research institutions with funding for administrative and facilities costs such as rent, heating, and electricity in addition to direct costs for ...

A coalition of universities, medical centers and other research institutions have pitched proposals on new funding models for how the federal government covers indirect costs that support research ...

A new estimate reveals how much a proposed cap on NIH grants would cost each state. The fallout over the Trump administration’s imposition of a cap on National Institutes of Health payments for ...

Massachusetts Hall is located in Harvard Yard and houses the University president's office. As indirect costs from the National Institutes of Health hang in legal limbo, Harvard's rate has come under ...

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 ...