Grant Cost Allowability

Summarize allowable and questioned costs in a tested grant sample.

Description

Grant-cost summaries total items already assigned allowability flags.

Grant-cost summaries total items already assigned allowability flags. Eligibility depends on separate award and rule review.^[1]

Summarize allowable and questioned costs in a tested grant sample.

When to use Grant Cost Allowability

Use this tool to summarize allowable and questioned costs in a tested grant sample.

Prepare the documented facts, aligned totals or expected/observed evidence labels requested. Choose applicable requirements and thresholds separately before interpreting a planning screen.

How to use Grant Cost Allowability and understand its results

Prepare the documented facts, aligned totals or expected/observed evidence labels requested. Choose applicable requirements and thresholds separately before interpreting a planning screen.
Enter testedCostAmounts, allowabilityFlags using the field table and calculation rules, then run the tool.
Read testedTotal, allowableTotal, questionedCostTotal, questionedCostPercent. The explanation below defines the units, signs, ordering and any flags or placeholder values.
If the tool reports an input issue, correct the values and run it again. Apply the stated assumptions when interpreting a successfully returned result.

Input field	Meaning	Value type; see rules below	Requirement
testedCostAmounts	Tested grant costs	list of number	Required
allowabilityFlags	Allowability flags as one or zero	list of number	Required

Enter nonempty aligned nonnegative amounts and numeric binary flags 0/1. Return totals/questioned percent, zero if total zero.

allowable=sum(cost where flag=1); questioned=total−allowable

Units, indexing, boundary conditions and exceptional cases are defined in the calculation rules above.

Output field	Meaning	Value type
testedTotal	Total tested costs	number; minimum: 0
allowableTotal	Allowable tested costs	number; minimum: 0
questionedCostTotal	Questioned tested costs	number; minimum: 0
questionedCostPercent	Questioned cost share (%)	number; minimum: 0; maximum: 100

json

{
  "input": {
    "testedCostAmounts": [
      100,
      200,
      300
    ],
    "allowabilityFlags": [
      1,
      0,
      1
    ]
  },
  "output": {
    "testedTotal": 600,
    "allowableTotal": 400,
    "questionedCostTotal": 200,
    "questionedCostPercent": 33.33333333333333
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

No grant terms, cost evidence or legal allowability is assessed.

Numeric inputs, where present, must be finite. Follow the calculation-specific rules for overflow, underflow and exceptional cases. Lists are limited to 100,000 entries; the rules above may require smaller limits. Missing required fields, extra fields, wrong value types and violations of the calculation rules are input errors.

Alternative or Complementary methods

Use SEFA Coverage: Audit SEFA field and note coverage. For a complementary task, use Program Diversion Screen: Screen program purchases for diversion and duplicate-discount exceptions.

References

Grant Cost Allowability — tool.io

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