Over-commitment is one of the most common audit findings in research administration — and it's almost always caught after the fact. Add the awards. See it now.
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| Award / project | Sponsor | Effort % | Person-months |
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How to use this: EffortLedger does the arithmetic and flags the patterns that draw audit scrutiny. It doesn't know your award terms or your institution's policies, and the NIH salary cap changes — confirm the current cap and treat this as a check, not an authority. Your sponsored programs office has the final word.
Commit 40% here and 70% there and you've committed 110% of a person who only has 100% to give. Auditors find this by adding columns.
Salary requested above the cap can't be charged — the excess has to be cost-shared, and if nobody caught it at proposal, it's caught at award.
Effort on pending proposals is a real commitment the moment they're funded. Tracking only active awards is how offices get surprised.
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