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It is imperative for the Principal Investigator to prepare a budget in accordance with the University's and Sponsor's guidelines.   The budget should be prepared and submitted to OSP (Michelle, Diane, or Lesley) for review and/or assistance prior to the actual submittal of the PeopleSoft and proposal to OSP for processing.

Examples of a correctly prepared budgets, complete with formulas, can be downloaded below:

Federal and Federal Flow Through Proposal Budget

Non-Federal Proposal Budget
Use this form to build a budget unless one of the following types of budget is required.

Federal and Federal Flow Through Match/Cost Share Budget

Federal and Federal Flow Through with In-kind Match Budget

Non-Federal Match/Cost Share Budget
Use this form if you have a budget where you need to show match/cost share funds.

Federal and Federal Flow Through Target Budget

Non-Federal Target Budget
Use this form to build a budget with a specific target amount allowed by the Agency.
Directions: enter the target amount in row 79.  You can now look at line 69 and this line will tell you the amount remaining to be distributed in the upper lines; indirects have already been deducted from this total.  If you keep referring to line 69, you will be able to reach your target budget without manual calculations.

Sample Budget Justification

Request for University Contribution (RUC)
This form is used when a PI intends to request:

• An off campus F&A rate
• A combination of an on-campus and off-campus F&A
• Any form of voluntary cost share (by voluntary, sponsor does not specifically required cost share)

Subcontract Information Sheet

Effective August 15th, 2005, this form will be required to be submitted along with the PSRS when a subcontract is contained within your budget.  See the  subcontracting page for further instructions.

Fringe Benefit Rates
Make sure your individual spreadsheet contains the most recent fringe benefit rate.

Facilities and Administration Rate (applied to modified total direct costs*)
Make sure your individual spreadsheet contains the most recent F&A rate.

For federal and other agencies excluding Missouri state agencies

For Missouri state agencies

*Modified Total Direct Costs (MTDC) are total direct costs minus the following:

• All capital expenditures (buildings, renovations, etc)
• Individual items of equipment with a single unit value of $5,000 or greater and an estimated useful life of more than one year
• That portion of each individual sub-award (subcontract) in excess of $25,000
• All hospitalization and other fees (patient care costs) associated with patient care, whether services are obtained from an owned, related, or third-party hospital or other medical facility
• All rental/maintenance of off-site activities (space)
• All student tuition and fees (e.g. student aid, scholarships, and fellowships).

**On Campus vs. Off Campus rates
Activities conducted in facilities not owned by Missouri University of Science & Technology and for which rent is charged to the project to use the facilities are considered off-campus.  Projects with both on-campus and off-campus activities must have budgets allocated between those activities.  Subcontracts are subjected to the on-campus rates.

Effective Jan 1, 2005, any research projects that will be conducted off campus and will hence use the off-campus F&A rate need a letter/statement form the PI submitted to Dr. Krishnamurthy for review and approval.

F&A College and Universities Rate Agreement