While I confess to not being an expert on the subject, we did get some
education from our administration here. You can charge for "depreciation";
however, here (and I expect at most other US universities) the depreciation
is covered in the overhead rate (i.e. under the indirect costs). You cannot
double-bill for it, so that means that you can't figure it in your rate to
your users.
Now what happens to the overhead, that's a different story... (My lab surely
doesn't see it.)
Regards,
Neal
At 12:07 PM 6/10/97 -0700, Sue DeMaggio <suedemag@e4e.oac.uci.edu> wrote:
>
>On a somewhat related point to core management & funding, I am hearing at
>our university that the federal government is saying we can not use
>recharge money for the upgrading or purchasing of equipment???? Has anyone
>else heard this? It doers't make any sense to me - it is the only money I
>have for small equipment addition to existing core facilities without
>writing a shared instrument or small instrument grant. Any light anyone
>can shed on this would be helpful.
>
>Sue DeMaggio
>UC Irvine
-- Neal Benson University of Florida E-mail: neal-benson@ufl.edu