F&A Rates (Facility and Administrative) are the indirect cost rates for the activity type of the proposal. The table may include both On Campus and Off Campus rate rows.
The Applicable Rate column is prepopulated to match the Institutional rate. To override the Institutional Rate, click in the Applicable Rate field and enter the rate to be applied for this propose. If the edited F&A rate entered is lower than the institutional rate, your proposal will generate under-recovered F&A. The under-recovered F&A amount will appear in the Commitments > Under-recovered F&A screen. If your implementation has enabled the parameter budgetUnrecoveredFandAEnforcementFlag, you will be required account for the amounts in order to finalize the budget.
Fringe Benefits or EB Rates are the employee benefit rates applied to some personnel salaries based on the activity type of the proposal. There may be multiple rate types to support apply the rate to some personnel categories (e.g. vacation accrual).The table may include both On Campus and Off Campus rate rows.
When appropriate for your budget, override the Institutional Rate by clicking in the Applicable Rate column and entering the rate that should be applied in this proposal.
Inflation Rates are maintained in the system to be used as the multiplying percentage to escalate expenses when using the Auto-calculate All Periods as well as automatically increasing the starting salary levels for assigned personnel when your budget start date is in the future.
Your institution must centrally maintain the Inflation Rate table, determining the breakdown of categories to be inflated (e.g. Faculty Salaries, Research Staff Salaries, Students, Materials, Tuition.); the default Institutional Rate; and the object code tables list define how object codes fall into each ‘rate type’ and if they should automatically inflate.
The Inflation Rates table in your proposal will include a Fiscal Year row for each year that falls between the start and end dates of your project. (If you are missing future FY rows, contact your local KC support desk and ask them to add the future fiscal years to the central rates maintenance table.) When appropriate for your budget, override the Institutional Rate by clicking in the Applicable Rate column and entering the inflation rate that should be used in this proposal. You must edit the rate in each fiscal year row to consistently inflate the expenses.
When the Auto-calculate feature is used to generate the budget periods, the inflation rates will be used automatically, based on object code (cost element) table mapping.
Lab Allocation Rates If present, “LA” rates are maintained in the system at a Unit level in the hierarchy. LA rates are negotiated rates, similar to Facilities and Administrative rates, but are specific to a Lab, Center, or Facility.
The Applicable Rate column is prepopulated to match the Institutional rate. To override the Institutional Rate, click in the Applicable Rate field and enter the rate to be applied for this propose.