Expenses
This page addresses several types of expenses that require special attention in federally sponsored research.
- Additional Pay: Full policy on additional pay which defines several types of payment including payment guidelines.
- Budget and Expense Account Codes: Information on the budget and account codes used to classify different types of expenses in NUFinancials.
- Consultants: Policies and procedures for the use of outside consultants in sponsored research.
- Cost Allowability for Sponsored Charges: A collection of tools that facilitate the justification of charging sponsored projects including a list of unallowable costs.
- Cost Transfers: Northwestern procedures and best practices for processing cost transfers.
- COVID-19: Affected Sponsored Projects- Cost Allowability: A collection of tools that facilitate the justification of charging sponsored projects impacted by the COVID-19 public health emergency.
- Equipment: Northwestern policies and federal requirements for the use of large instruments and machines.
- Immigration Fees: Policies for involving researchers from a foreign country on certain federally sponsored projects.
- Institutional Allowance: National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded individual fellowships policy statement and frequently asked questions.
- Research Subject Fees: Instructions to process payments for research subjects including a link to Institutional Review Board (IRB).
- Subcontracts: Monitoring awards that fund subrecipients from other institutions.
- Travel: Overlapping Northwestern policies and federal requirements that govern travel by sponsored project investigators on business related to their research project.