ORDE has developed a variety of resources for UCD faculty and research support staff in response to identified needs. Below are our step-by-step Quick Guides, Research Knowledge Base articles and budget templates.
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Budgeting Resources
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Budgeting Resources
The Office of Research Development and Education (ORDE) has developed three spreadsheets and other budgeting resources that we hope will be of use to the University community. Please remember when using these spreadsheets that all projects and thus all budgets are not the same. We have modeled the NIH and NSF spreadsheets on the agency budget templates. Please contact Lynette at lynette.michael@ucdenver.edu if you find any formula errors. If you create a better spreadsheet you would like to share with your colleagues, please forward and we will test and put up on our website for others (we promise to give you credit).
Please note that University policies on Direct Cost charging, cost share, and other pertinent information are available on the Office of Grants and Contracts (OGC) website at http://www.uchsc.edu/ogc
*Please note that you will be asked to "connect to cudenver.edu" when opening the Excel spreadsheets. This is a system error and is being looked into. Click cancel and the spreadsheet will appear. We're sorry for the inconvenience.
- A Quick Guide: Proposal Budget Checklist
This checklist can be used when a principal investigator is ready to begin budget preparations. This Quick Guide is designed to help PIs contemplate and request budget items necessary to the project.
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) Budget Example
This example spreadsheet pictures an NIH budget for a project that does not fit modular budgeting requirements set by the agency. As you will see when utilizing the spreadsheet, it will also be helpful with modular budgets. If all personnel lines are not utilized in your budget (the likely scenario), be certain to review instructions in the spreadsheet file (second worksheet in lower left) for how to proceed. Otherwise, you will see “#DIV/0!” denoting that you are attempting to divide by zero. See Einstein quote above. A blank NIH budget spreadsheet is provided for your convenience. Gray and green cells indicate that formulas are present.
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Budget Example
This budget spreadsheet pictures a large NSF budget. As in the NIH budget above, if all personnel lines are not utilized in your budget, be sure to review the instructions found in the spreadsheet file for how to proceed. Otherwise, you will see the infamous “#DIV/0!” error message in the gray cells, indicating division by 0. A blank NSF budget spreadsheet is also provided for your convenience. Note that gray and green cells denote pre-existing formulas.
- Generic Budget Example
This spreadsheet is meant to serve as a rough estimator of project costs and perhaps will be most useful in the early stages of budget development for the faculty member. Unlike the two spreadsheets above, it does not compute actual person months or salaries. It incorporates standard budget items used by many agencies – federal, state, nonprofit and corporate – but is definitely not all-inclusive. A blank spreadsheet is also provided for your convenience.
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Person Months Conversion Chart
Most federal agencies now require that time spent on a project be portrayed as person-months instead of percent of effort. This chart provides users with a method of quick conversion.
*Please note that you will be asked to "connect to cudenver.edu" when opening the Excel spreadsheets. This is a system error and is being looked into. Click cancel and the spreadsheet will appear. We're sorry for the inconvenience.
Quick Guides
ORDE has designed a series of Quick Guides as references for the University research community on a variety of topics. Additional Quick Guides will be made available on this site as they are developed.
Quick Guide: Proposal Budget Checklist
This checklist can be used when a principal investigator is ready to begin budget preparations, and is designed to help make certain items necessary to the project are requested in the budget and budget justification.
Quick Guide: Budget Justifications
This document will be useful for all who write budget justifications. Well-documented budget justifications are an essential, required element of proposal development.
Miscellaneous Resources