Cost Allocation Scope

Ensure the system for allocating research administration support costs to units includes grant expenditures and F&A rates in proportion to the budget of the collaborative endeavor

• Assess feasibility of recommended change
  • Confirm availability of data for analysis
  • Align allocated expense to amount of F&A recovery
  • What is addressed at University level vs campus level
• Improve understanding of cost allocation process, including relationship with catalog of services
  • Illustrate requirements, i.e. compliance
  • Clarifying differences between different types of research grants
• Facilitate perception of a consistent, logical, and impartial cost allocation process

Recognize the larger contribution of training grants to the university’s mission and exclude the associated grant expense from the cost allocation formula

• Assess feasibility of changing methodology
  • Confirm availability of data for analysis
  • Consider impacts to cost/purchasing
  • Evaluate positive/negative impacts and the consequences of change
  • Evaluate potential of symbiotically leveraging President/Chancellor’s office strategic funding to offset costs
• Define and identify “training grants” systematically
• Ensure mission critical items are identified in financial systems

Exclude expenditures from equipment grants that do not require the university to incur acquisition costs or provide other ongoing support

• Assess feasibility of changing methodology
  • Confirm availability of data for analysis
  • Evaluate positive/negative impacts and the consequences of change
• Define and identify “equipment grants” systematically