Stuart -

If you allocate part of indirect cost revenues as a reserve for
disallowance's, isn't a shortfall created elsewhere?  As an A-122
institution, I know contingency provisions with the exception of
self-insurance reserves, pension funds, and reserves for normal
severance pay are unallowable.  From our perspective, unallowable
expenditures would be paid from institutional resources independent
from indirect recovery generated from federal support.

John D. Pepe
Controller
Stroud Water Research Center
970 Spencer Road
Avondale, PA 19311-9514

Voice: (610) 268-2153 ext. 253  Fax: (610) 268-0490  E-mail:
xxxxxx@stroudcenter.org

On Thursday, February 18, 1999 12:34 PM, Ross, Stuart
[SMTP:xxxxxx@EXCHANGE.FULLERTON.EDU] wrote:
> Like many others we set aside a part of our indirect cost revenues
for
> a
> reserve for disallowances.
> The question being asked here is, how much is enough?
> We currently have about 2% of annual grant expenditures in our
> reserve.   We
> are a comprehensive non-PhD institution; our grants volume per year
is
> just
> under $10 million.
> How big a reserve do other institutions carry?
> We would like to hear some examples, suggestions, ideas, and war
> stories.
> Thanks.
>
> Stuart A. Ross
> Director
> Grants and Contracts
> California State University, Fullerton
> xxxxxx@fullerton.edu
> 714 278 2106
>
>
>
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