Jennifer, Hi! I would also like to have copies of your budget
justification. Fax# 617-726-9414.Thanks. Jackie email:
xxxxxx@partners.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jane L. Treat [SMTP:xxxxxx@COMP.UARK.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 1998 10:57 AM
> To:   xxxxxx@hrinet.org
> Subject:      Re: A-21,F.6.b Compliance -Reply
>
> Jennifer, I would like to have copies of your Budget Justification.
> My
> fax is 501-575-3846.  thanks.
>
> Jane L Treat 501-575-3845 xxxxxx@comp.uark.edu  120 Ozark Hall,
> UA,Fayetteville
>
> On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Jennifer Morgan wrote:
>
> > Eric -
> >
> > As long as a cost has been included in the budget and adequately
> > justified as an unusual circumstance; has gone through sponsor
> review;
> > and has been awarded as budgeted, you can pay for costs as direct
> > that are normally treated as indirect.  Of course, the approved
> budget
> > and justification should be kept as a back-up document for the
> > post-award file.
> >
> > I have some example budget justifications that I developed when I
> taught
> > a series of sessions on Direct Costing under CAS to all faculty and
> > senior administrative staff at the University of Alabama at
> Birmingham.  I
> > assume that the justifications are good as I have subsequently
> learned
> > that Coopers and Lybrand have freely plagiarized these examples,
> > merely changing the fictitious names I used in the examples.  (I
> still
> > haven't decided whether I am flattered or annoyed about this.)
> >
> > If you would like a copy of those examples, just let me know.  I'll
> be
> > happy to send them to you either by fax or attach to an email as a
> > WordPerfect document.
> >
> > -Jennifer
> >
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > Jennifer Morgan
> > Director of Sponsored Programs
> > Office of Grants & Contracts
> > Allegheny Campus
> > Allegheny Univ. of the Health Sciences
> > One Allegheny Center, Suite 880
> > Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  15212
> > 412-359-1523 (voice)
> > 412-359-1556 (fax)
> > xxxxxx@pgh.auhs.edu
> >
> > >>> Eric D Carter <xxxxxx@COMPTROLLER.UMD.EDU> 06/03/98
> > 04:31pm >>>
> > I am interested to know what procedures other institutions are using
> to
> > insure compliance with A-21 particularly section F.6.b regarding
> > "departmental administration" payroll and other operating costs.
> >
> > For example, do you include line items in project budgets for
> > secretarial, clerical, and administrative salaries, telephone (local
> > charges), office supplies, photocopying costs, and other costs which
> > are
> >
> > "usually" indirect costs in "normal" circumstances.
> >
> > For those of you doing post-award administration, what procedures do
> > you
> >
> > use to check the appropriateness of "departmental administration"
> costs
> > which are charged directly to sponsored projects? Do you compare DA
> > charges to grants with the project budget?   How much of this A-21
> > (F.6.b) compliance responsibility resides with the P.I or academic
> > department and how much resides at the institutional level?  Do you
> have
> >
> > written procedures for A-21, F.6.b. compliance?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Eric Carter, Executive Accountant
> > University of Maryland College Park
> > xxxxxx@comptroller.umd.edu
> > 301-405-2619
> >