[Flex] FastLane - new budget form

[Sue Tomeo]

Hi all,

Janis Umschlag received the message below from a NCURA member. I thought 
all of you would be interested
in hearing about the problem with the new Fastlane budget form. There's 
always something.

Sue


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> Subject:
> [ncuradeptadmin] FastLane - new budget form
> From:
> "Meyer, Diane M [BEI]" <meyerd at iastate.edu>
> Date:
> Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:38:50 -0500
> To:
> "ncuradeptadmin" <ncuradeptadmin at lists.ncura.edu>
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> To:
> "ncuradeptadmin" <ncuradeptadmin at lists.ncura.edu>
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>
> I know that everyone is up their eyeballs in ARRA and Grants.gov, but 
> I wanted to share this new development concerning the budget format in 
> FastLane.
>
> I just started a proposal this week (copied from a previous 
> submission). The new budget form includes a Federal and Non-Federal 
> column. This is new. Ok, so I can work with that. HOWEVER, the form 
> doesn’t automatically include the F&A in the total. I called the Help 
> Desk and they hadn’t seen this new form either. What we discovered is 
> that you must enter the Total Indirect Costs at the bottom of the form 
> (where it /should/ automatically sum the amounts).
>
> The gal I spoke with is going to report this “bug.”
>
> Happy Friday!
>
> Diane
>
> Diane M. Meyer
>
> Business Manager
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> Bioeconomy Institute
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> Iowa State University
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Susan Tomeo
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