Direct costs can include expenses like pay for employees who provide goods or services and any money needed to purchase and maintain specialized equipment. — Getty Images/aldomurillo In financial ...

Compared to private industry contractors and federal laboratories, universities receive less from the federal government to cover costs indirectly related to research, according to a study ...

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 ...

Businesses are always looking for ways to cut costs and improve their bottom line. One often-overlooked area for potential savings is indirect spending—the expenses that are not directly related to ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Friday evening, February 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released guidance that, unless revised, will significantly alter the biomedical research landscape in the US. The NIH announced ...

A federal judge in Boston has rescinded the National Science Foundation’s new 15% cap on reimbursement of facility and administrative costs (F&A)—called indirect expenses—related to research grants.