To:	Business Management Staff and Sponsored Program Services Staff
From:	Ken Sandel, Senior Director, Sponsored Program Services
Date:	May 28, 2019
Re:	Administration of Unexpended Funds from All Sponsored Projects – Supersedes Instruction No. 4 dated September 28, 2015

  

Unexpended funds from all sponsored projects in fund 46010000 will be considered to be residual funds if all the following conditions are met:

1. The contract is fixed-price (i.e., there is no provision for return of unexpended funds to the sponsor).
2. All payments required under the contract have been received by Purdue.
3. All required project work is complete, and all reports and other deliverables have been provided to the sponsor.
4. All expenses related to the project have been properly charged to the account.

If all the above criteria have been satisfied, the unexpended direct cost balance in the account will be transferred to an unrestricted fund in the appropriate department. The unexpended indirect cost will be credited to the indirect cost recovery fund. Residual funds transferred to the unrestricted fund will not be subject to indirect cost.

The unexpended direct cost balance will be calculated by pro-rating the total cost unexpended balance by the indirect cost rate applicable to the project.

Example:

	Total Cost Unexpended Balance:		F&A Rate on project:
	$1,535.00		50% MTDC
	Transfer to department unrestricted fund:		$990.32
	Transfer to indirect cost recovery fund:		$544.68

 

SPS staff will transfer residual funds to the designated department unrestricted fund upon project closing. A department reference number will be used if requested. Further allocation or tracking of these funds is at the discretion of the department head. Accounts for all residual funds should be established for each academic department as needed. If a department has an existing unrestricted fund which was established for other unrestricted designated income, the purpose of the existing unrestricted fund can be expanded to include all residual funds.