Nancy Kay Peterson asks:
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>We would like to use some of our indirect cost funds to pay for on-campus
>training of administrators and faculty in the team approach to management.
>The training would not be related to any particular grant project.  As I
>read A-21, this should be an allowable cost.  Can anybody out there confirm
>my conclusion?
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Indirect costs represent expenditures already made by your
institution for which you are being reimbursed.  You can then spend
those funds anyway that is allowable by your institution.  What A-21
is referring to is the inclusion of allowable staff training expenses
in the indirect cost pool - thus making these expenditures eligible
for reimbursement (assuming you are a long form institution).

 Richard H. Moore
 Assistant Vice President for Grants and Sponsored Research
 and Professor of Biology

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