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 ...

The FAIR model proposed by higher ed associations may be on the table for fiscal year 2027.

Incoming APS President Pamela Davis-Kean describes the role indirect costs play in the U.S. research landscape and the ...

What are Indirect (IDC or F&A) Costs? Federal Regulations define IDC as "Indirect costs are those that have been incurred for common or joint objectives and cannot be readily identified with a ...

CU Boulder’s Federally-Negotiated Indirect Cost (F&A) Rate Agreement includes four types of activities. The activity types of organized research, instruction, and other sponsored activities are ...

Is this the end of the world as universities and similar research institutions in the U.S. know it? Well, they probably don’t feel fine after the National Institutes of Health announced on Friday ...

Note: This post was updated with new information on February 13, 2025. On February 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued Supplemental Guidance to its 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement, ...

In the first article of this series of articles related to selling to the federal government, I discussed federal acquisition regulations (FAR), cost accounting standards (CAS) and the types of ...

Indirect costs — often called facilities-and-administrative costs — are expenses that are not directly associated with any one research project. This includes libraries, electricity, administrative ...

The National Institutes of Health said Friday that it would be capping a type of funding for research institutions across the U.S. The National Institutes of Health is the key agency overseeing ...

Acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, will spend “four or five days in Washington” to discuss the federal government’s efforts to cap research indirect cost recovery rates at ...

On Feb. 7, the National Institutes of Health implemented a funding cut that would cost Penn $240 million. While a judge temporarily halted the changes following a lawsuit brought by Penn and 12 other ...