Indirect Costs

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-014107

1. The costs associated with impacts or consequences of a program.

2. Costs (a) incurred for a common or joint purpose benefitting more than one cost objective and (b) not readily assignable to the cost objectives specifically benefitted without effort disproportionate to the results achieved. (OMB Circular A 87)

3. The resources forgone either to participate in an intervention or as the result of a health condition (such as earnings forgone because of loss of time from work).

4. Those costs incurred for a common or joint purpose benefitting more than one cost objective, and not readily assignable to the cost objectives specifically benefitted.

Table 1. Record
Identifier	MLC-T-ENV-014107
Field	Environment
Subject	Policy and guidance
References	Program Evaluation Glossary; Grants and Debarment Glossary; USDA 2004; Exchange Network Glossary

Record as JSON

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}

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