I have some questions about budgets that include volunteer time of the PI
(summer salary "earned" but not requested) as part of the required match on
a federal grant.

Is this a common practice?  Can the institution claim the indirect costs to
which we would have been entitled had that person been paid as an "in-kind"
match?  Is the same time and effort reporting system used for paid summer
salary sufficient documentation for auditors?

If people respond to me directly I'll post a summary to the list.

Franci Farnsworth

Frances Vinal Farnsworth
Coordinator of Sponsored Research
Grants Office - Forest Hall
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT  05753

Tel:  802-443-5889
Fax:  802-443-2083
email:  xxxxxx@mail.middlebury.edu