Help with the following problem will be greatly appreciated!  We have
been trying since Friday to submit proposals to the NIH AREA grant
program.  The consistent error message says:  Indirect Cost Funds
Requested for budget year 1 must equal the product of Indirect Cost Rate
and Indirect Cost Base for the same year-Error."  To complete the PHS
398 Modular Budget form, we filled in the section for Budget Period 1,
with the Direct Costs being the total modular amount requested for the
entire period of the project; and then we completed the Indirect Costs
section by multiplying our Salary & Wages indirect cost type times the
actual figure of salaries and benefits for the entire project period,
and then we  rounded the resulting figure down to a whole number for the
Indirect Funds Requested.

My calls to the eRA Commons help line resulted in a suggestion to round
the resulting number up or to use the actual cents as well as the
dollars.  Neither option worked.  Now the eRA people have referred me to
the NIH help line, and I am waiting for a call back.  I am probably
overlooking something very simple, but I'm becoming a bit frantic that
our faculty members' proposals may not get submitted in time.  Thank you
all!

Jo Harris
Sponsored Programs Specialist
Office of Graduate Studies & Research
Appalachian State University
287 Rivers Street
Boone, NC 28608
(828) 262-2694

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