Maximizing Recovery of Direct and Indirect Costs (Center for Public Management)

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Maximizing Recovery of Direct and Indirect Costs

Objective

To show how your organization can produce a more competitive indirect cost rate(s) while fully recovering your costs.

Level	Delivery	Advance Preparation	Prerequisites	CPE Hours
Basic	Group-Live Offering	None	None	14

Seminar Outline

Intensive Review of the Cost Principles on Indirect Costing
- USAID's, HHS's, etc. Policies on Indirect Costs
Discretionary Areas in the Cost Principles
- Direct vs. Indirect Costing, Number of Pools and Alternative Bases of Allocation
Alternative Models for Indirect Costing
- Creating Home Office and Field Office Rates, Multiple Fringe Rates, F&A Rates
Creating Administrative Service Centers
- Alternate Strategies for Allocating Subcontract/Grant Administration, Space, Administrative Support, Material Handling Rate
Creating a Special Business Unit/Division for Awards Paying Less-than-Full Indirect Costs
- Dealing with Lower Foundation Rates and Bidding Less-than-Full Rates
Analyzing Your Cost Recovery Structure
- Comparison of Your Rate with Other Nonprofits' and For-Profits'
- Competitive Indirect Cost Multipliers
Review of Controversial Areas in Indirect Costs
- Bidding Uncompensated Overtime, B&P vs Fund-Raising Costs, Recovering Cost of Bonuses, Salary Caps, Consistency in Estimating, Costing, Billing the Base of Allocation, Timely Submission of the SF 269/1034 without the Final Indirect Cost Rate