Welcome to module 6. To begin this module read the Learning Objectives, then click the red button to your right under Get Started.

Learning Objectives

1. Define cost sharing.
2. Define committed cost sharing.
3. Correctly identify items that can be cost shared.
4. Correctly identify items that cannot be cost shared.
5. Identify correct proposal language to use when proposing the use of a Stanford facility or Stanford equipment on sponsored a project.
6. Correctly explain why it is not appropriate to charge our sponsors for use of a Stanford facility through cost sharing.
7. Correctly identify proposal statements that constitute cost sharing effort.
8. State why it is necessary to open a cost sharing Task and Award under the related project.
9. Define Organized Research.
10. Correctly explain why Overdrafts must be charged to a cost sharing account, even though they do not represent cost sharing.
11. Explain why departments must assure that space inventory codes match the function of cost sharing and sponsored PTAs (Project-Task-Awards).

Self Assessment