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Cost sharing means that CU Boulder is providing money, employee effort, or tangible goods toward the direct costs of a sponsored research project. Such contributions may be made by CU Boulder, the principal investigator, or by other third parties, but all are a form of cost share.

With the start of the fall semester, we anticipate an increase in sponsored research travel. To help you plan, we have compiled some useful information and links.

Your dedication and hard work have contributed to the remarkable and successful year-end process and accomplishments over the past year.

We are starting to see transactions posted to sponsored projects for procurement or travel card activities from Concur that are unallowable per university policy. These transactions should not be charged either to departmental or sponsored funding sources.

We are excited to announce that the Campus Controller’s Office and the Office of Contracts and Grants are launching a second Department Research Administrator Cohort Program. If you are interested in participating, we want to hear from you!

We are pleased to share that University Information Services has created a new ePERs tile for principal investigators. Also, please help initiate standard business practice for principal investigators, researchers, department research administrators and fiscal managers to take ePERs training.

Earlier this spring, I developed and shared a vivid vision for the work of Finance and Business Strategy with FBS staff. If you’re not familiar, a vivid vision is an invitation to imagine the future. It differs from a strategic plan in important ways. Read to find out more.

We hope campus departments are finding the m-Fin sensitive expenditure report useful in monitoring potentially unallowable expenses on sponsored projects. Here are some upcoming updates to the report's functionality.

On January 1, the Office of University Controller issued a revised Business Expense Substantiation and Tax Implications Procedural Statement, which is now being implemented by the Procurement Service Center. Review some of the most frequently asked questions.

GASB 96 provided new accounting guidelines for subscription agreements to use a third party’s IT resource for a defined period of time. Read to find out which accounts to use when purchasing IT subscriptions.