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PPM 300-40 Policy [pdf format]
GUIDELINES FOR RECHARGE AND OTHER
INCOME-PRODUCING ACTIVITIES TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.REFERENCES AND RELATED POLICIES
II.SCOPE
III.DEFINITIONS
IV.EXCEPTIONS
V.POLICIES
VI.PROCEDURES
VII.RESPONSIBILITY
EXHIBIT A, Information Required for Request to Establish New Activity
EXHIBIT B, Information Required to Change Rates and Add Rates
EXHIBIT C-1, Sample of Calculation of Productive Hours
EXHIBIT C-2, Sample Rate Calculation Activity Whose Services are Mainly Labor
EXHIBIT C-3, Sample Rate Calculation Activity that Provides Stock Merchandise
EXHIBIT C-4, Sample Rate Calculation Activity that Produces Goods or Testing Services
EXHIBIT C-5, Sample Production Rates
EXHIBIT C-6, Sample Rate Calculation Activity that Provides Equipment Rental or Use
EXHIBIT C-7, Equipment Rental Rates
EXHIBIT D, Labor Clearing Funds
SUPPLEMENT I, Approved Differential Rates
GUIDELINES FOR RECHARGE AND OTHER INCOME-PRODUCING ACTIVITIES
- REFERENCES AND RELATED POLICIES
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University of California, Regulation No. 4. - Special Services to Individuals and
Organizations
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Planning and Budget Manual
Chapter 4010 Operating Budget Amendments
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University Policy on Activities Generating Unrelated Business Income.
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University of California Business and Finance Bulletin Manual (BFB)
A-47 University Direct Costing Procedures, July 1, 1984
A-56 Academic Support Unit Costing and Billing Guidelines, April 15, 1986
A-59 Costing and Working Capital for Auxiliary and Service Enterprises, July 1, 1982
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UCSD Policy and Procedure Manual (PPM)
150-14 Facilities and Administrative Cost Rates Applicable to Research,
Instruction and Other Federal and Non-Federal Sponsored Projects
300-20 Sub-Cashiering and Change Funds
300-23 State Sales Taxes-The University as a Seller
380-1 Modification of the Operating Budget
480-20 Records Disposition Schedules
500-4 Approval and Execution of Incoming Purchase Orders for University
Goods and Services
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OMB CircularA-21, Cost Principles for Educational Institutions (Revised)
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UCSD Cost Accounting Standards Board Disclosure Statement (CASB DS-2),
June 30, 1996
- SCOPE
This issuance sets policies and procedures for the establishment, costing and pricing, and
administration of UCSD recharge and other income producing activities. These activities
include auxiliary enterprises, service enterprises, academic support activities, support group
activities and miscellaneous sales activities.
- DEFINITIONS
- Academic Support Activity
A recharge or other income producing activity within an academic department which
provides, at approved rates and on a regular and continuing basis, goods or services
to a specific group of users. Examples include testing services, computer services
and illustration services. Typically, an academic support activity may have a
combination of recharge and other income.
- Auxiliary Enterprise
An activity which provides, at approved rates and on a regular and continuing basis,
goods or services primarily to individual students, faculty, staff and, incidentally, to
the general public. Examples include the University Bookstore, Housing and Dining
Services, and Parking Services. Typically, an auxiliary enterprise will have only
incidental recharge income.
- Capital Costs
Costs of fixed assets, such as equipment, buildings and certain building
improvements, which benefit an extended period.
- Differential Income Reserve Fund
The accounting mechanism used to segregate and accumulate overhead cost
recovery from sales of goods or services to non-University individuals or entities.
- Direct Costs
Costs that can be consistently and specifically identified with the provision of goods
or services by an activity. Examples of such costs are salaries, employee benefits,
cost of materials, maintenance agreements and supplies.
- Equipment Replacement Reserve Fund
The accounting mechanism used to segregate and accumulate funds needed for
future equipment acquisitions.
- Labor Clearing Fund
An Activity which redistributes personnel and related costs to multiple funding sources within a
specific department in circumstances which otherwise would require complex, split-funded payroll transactions, using recharge methodology. A typical labor clearing
fund involves investigators and technicians whose effort from month to month
directly benefits numerous contracts and grants in varying amounts.
- Miscellaneous Sales Activity
Any recharge or other income producing activity that cannot be classified as an
auxiliary enterprise, service enterprise, academic support activity or support group activity. Examples include real property rental activities, royalty income activities,
orientation programs, and departmental conference programs.
- Operating Costs
Expenditures, benefiting a single period, which are necessary to conduct normal
business. Examples of operating costs include employee wages and benefits,
supplies and equipment maintenance.
- Operating Fund
The accounting mechanism used to record operating costs and income.
- Other Income
Revenue received by a department or unit from the sale, at approved rates, of goods
or services to an organization not affiliated with the University or to individuals
regardless of their affiliation.
- Other Income Producing Activity
A department or unit that provides, at approved rates, goods or services to an
organization not affiliated with the University or to individuals regardless of their
affiliation.
- Overhead Costs
Costs that are incurred for common or collective institutional objectives. In the
Federal Costing Principles and particularly when related to sponsored activities, these
costs are also called Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs. Although overhead
costs are not readily identifiable with the provision of particular goods or services by
an activity, they benefit and are properly allocable to an activity. Examples of such
costs are building depreciation costs and campus administrative costs.
- Recharge
The assessment and collection by one University department or unit of an approved
fee for goods or services furnished to another University department or unit. In
general, a recharge reflects the sale, at approved rates, of goods or services by one
department or unit to another. For University financial reporting, a recharge is
considered to be a cost redistribution.
- Recharge Activity
A department or unit that provides, at approved rates, goods or services to other
departments or units.
- Recharge Income
The credit received by a department or unit that furnishes, at approved rates,
goods or services to another department or unit. In general, the credit is equivalent
to revenue from the sale of goods or services.
- Recharge Rate Review Committee
A committee that reviews and recommends approval or disapproval of requests to
establish new recharge and other income producing activities. The committee also
reviews and recommends approval or disapproval of rate change proposals and
proposals to add rates for new goods or services. The committee, whose
membership includes representatives from each Vice-Chancellor area, is advisory to
the Assistant Vice Chancellor, Business and Financial Services.
- Service Enterprise
An activity which provides, at approved rates and on a regular and continuing basis,
goods or services to a wide variety of campus departments, rather than to
individuals. Examples include Graphics and Reproduction Services, the campus
Storehouse, the Central Garage, and Telecommunication Services. Typically, a
service enterprise will have only incidental other income.
- Start-up Costs
Non-recurring costs necessary to prepare a new activity for its normal business
purpose. Start-up costs may include both capital expenditures, such as those for
equipment, and non-capital expenditures, such as moving expenses.
- Support Group Activity
A recharge activity which, using approved rate methodology, distributes a particular
category of direct cost to multiple funding sources within a specific department. Generally, a support group is used to record and redistribute personnel and related costs in
circumstances which otherwise would require complex, split-funded payroll
transactions. A typical support group involves investigators and technicians whose
effort from month to month directly benefits numerous contracts and grants in
varying amounts.
- Unrelated Business Income
A type of other income resulting from sales of goods or services to individuals or
non-University entities. If sales are not substantially related to University educational
or research purposes, proceeds from the sales are considered to be unrelated
business income and are subject to Federal income tax reporting requirements. Examples include income from sales of machine shop services and computing
services to non-University entities.
- Working Capital
Financing, or funding, required for current needs, such as inventories and accounts
receivable, and capital needs such as equipment, buildings and certain building
improvements.
- EXCEPTIONS
Enumerated below are rates or rate methodology excepted from policies of this issuance
requiring review and approval by the Recharge Rate Review Committee:
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Hospital fees for patient services.
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Rates of Hospital recharge activities within fund group 63XXXX that provide goods
or services entirely to other Hospital units within the same fund group. However,
the rates or rate methodology of any Hospital activity, which recharges funds other than 63XXXX,
shall be subject to review and approval by the Recharge Rate Review
Committee.
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Medical Group fees for patient services.
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Department of Psychiatry fees for patient services.
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The rates or rate methodology of any Auxiliary Enterprise within fund group 70000X-74999X which are subject to unique review procedures approved by the Vice
Chancellor-Business Affairs.
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University Extension and Office of Continuing Medical Education course fees.
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Campus Recreation class fees and intramural sports participant fees.
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Academic course material fees.
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Long-term agreements for the rental or lease of University property negotiated by the
Real Estate Development Office.
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Royalty, copyright and similar agreements negotiated by the Technology Transfer
Office.
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Material Management sales of surplus property.
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University Events, Intercollegiate Athletics, and Departments of Theatre and Music
ticket sales.
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Administrative recharges to Auxiliary Enterprises by Central Administrative units.
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Recharges for Reapportionment and Funding Adjustments.
- Recharges assessing University Opportunity funds for replacement of medical
tuition initially charged to General Funds budgets.
- Recharge assessing Federal Contract and Grant Administration funds for
contract and grant related costs initially charged to General Funds budgets.
- Recharges assessing Educational Fee funds for institutional support and
operation and maintenance of plant services to student service activities.
- Recharges assessing construction projects for costs initially charged to
Building Program Clearing accounts.
- Recharges of administrative and supervisory costs of University Extension,
Residence and Dining facilities, and Auxiliary and Plant Services to the
benefiting units within their respective areas.
- Recharges assessing General Funds for teaching patient care initially charged
to Hospital or Medical Group funds.
- POLICIES
- General Policies
Recharge and other billing transactions may be initiated only by those activities
that adhere to the general policies enumerated below.
- Establishment
- The benefits, including relative prices and quality, of the proposed
activity providing goods or services must be weighed against the
benefits of obtaining similar goods or services from commercial sources
or other University sources.
- Goods or services shall not be sold to the general public unless the
goods or services are unique or sales will not compete with commercial
sources.
- If services are to be provided by the activity, they shall be unique or
specialized, as opposed to general administration or other institutional
support services.
- Proposals to establish new activities must be reviewed and approved by
the Recharge Rate Review Committee, except that proposals of activities with projected annual income of less than $10,000 may be
reviewed and approved by the Chair of the Recharge Rate Review
Committee on behalf of the full Committee.
- New activities shall have a budget established in accordance with
Planning and Budget Manual Chapter 4010.
- To assure compliance with Federal requirements, each service center
that depreciates equipment in their charge rates must inventory the
service center equipment under a discrete custodial code, which is
associated with the service center operating fund.
- Costing and Pricing
- Activities shall be charged for all direct costs involved in producing their
goods or services.
- All direct costs shall be recorded in the operating fund assigned to the
activity.
- Rates of activities shall be sufficient to recover all direct costs.
- In addition to being sufficient to recover all direct costs, rates for sales
made by activities to the general public shall recover overhead costs.
- Rates of auxiliary enterprises shall recover actual overhead costs.
- Rates of all other activities shall be based on the current
negotiated research rate for the campus, less four components: Equipment Depreciation, Sponsored Project Administration,
Library, and Student Administration and Services. (See
Supplement I for current differential rates.) In the case where a
particular sales/service activity involves the resources of/results in
administrative burden/cost to Sponsored Project Administration,
Library, or Student Services, the affected components should not
be excluded.
- Normally, exceptions must meet one of the following
conditions in order to obtain approval:
- Off-Campus - If a sales/service activity is located in
space that is not owned or maintained by UCSD,
an off-campus differential rate will be added to sales
to the general public. If a sales service activity is
affiliated with the ship-use operation, with no space
costs and all departmental support costs factored
into the charge rate, a ship use differential rate will
be added to sales to the general public. (See
Supplement I for current differential rates.)
- Capacity Considerations - When a sales/service
activity needs outside sales to attain/maintain a
desirable capacity that in turn keeps the
sales/service cost low for University clients, and
when the standard overhead rate would price the
service out of a competitive position.
- Quid Pro Quo - When a particular client, or all clients,
are providing something of tangible value to UCSD
that can be counted in lieu of full overhead on the
sales/service charge.
- Funds representing overhead cost recovery generated on or
after July 1, 1994, shall be distributed as follows:
- 65% to, or as directed by, the Vice Chancellor
responsible for the activity that generated the
overhead cost recovery.
- 25% to, or as directed by, the Vice Chancellor-Business Affairs.
- 10% to, or as directed by, the Vice Chancellor-Resource Management and Planning.
- If an activity is determined to be off-campus or ship
use, and the off-campus differential rate or ship use
rate is added on sales to the general public, the
differential income which is generated will be
distributed according to the standard 65%-25%-10%
formula. Otherwise, where a sales/service has
obtained approval to charge a reduced overhead rate
for outside sales, the income will first be distributed
to the administrative Vice Chancellors, to fund their
share, with the balance, if any, retained by the Vice
Chancellor responsible for the activity. Example: If
the sales/service charge is $100, the standard rate is
40%, and the approved rate exception is to 20%,
resulting in $20 in overhead income, the
administrative share is 35% of $40 or $14; the
remaining portion of $6 is retained by the Vice
Chancellor responsible for the activity.
- Overhead cost recovery in excess of the standard
rate discussed in paragraph (2), above, shall be
distributed to, or as directed by, the Vice Chancellor
responsible for the activity that generated the
overhead cost recovery.
- Funds representing overhead cost recovery that are
distributed to an activity's differential income reserve, may
not be used to fund operating costs of the activity.
- Funds representing overhead cost recovery, which are
distributed to an activity's differential income reserve, may
be used to fund non-operating costs, such as equipment
and capital improvements of the activity. With the
approval of the cognizant Department Chair or
Administrative Unit Head, such funds also may be used for
operating costs of the department or unit, other than those
of the activity itself.
- Capital expenditures, including cost of equipment, shall not be charged
to the operating fund of any activity that recharges Federally-funded
users.
- Activities shall charge all users of goods or services at established,
approved rates.
- Identical goods or services provided to University users must have
identical rates.
- Rates of activities shall be stated in measurable units of goods or
services and a separate rate shall be established for each class of goods
or services provided.
- Rates shall be based on standard cost accounting methods. Rates shall
not be based on prorations or other overhead methods of cost
allocations, unless the methodology is a calculation of unit costs
supporting the goods and services provided, and the methodology is
approved by the Recharge Rate Review Committee.
- Any subsidy provided to users should be provided through a central
allocation of discretionary funds that will permit activities to charge
rates based on full costs.
- Unless specifically approved by the Recharge Rate Review Committee,
fixed-price jobs shall not be quoted or billed to either University or non-University users.
- Unless specifically approved by the Recharge Rate Review Committee,
rates charged to non-University users shall not be subsidized in any
manner.
- Administration
- Activities shall submit any proposal to revise existing rates or rate
methodology to the Recharge Rate Review Committee for review and
approval.
- Recharge activity procedures, that include monthly statements to users,
shall be subject to the approval and periodic review of General
Accounting, as well as the periodic review of Audit & Management
Advisory Services.
- Cash handling and billing procedures for recharge activities, shall be
subject to the approval of Student Business Services and General
Accounting, and the periodic review by Audit & Management
Advisory Services.
- Activities shall maintain records to substantiate recharge and other
billing transactions, including requisitions, purchase orders, or similar
written verification of individual user requests for goods or services.
- Activities shall maintain records to substantiate that an individual user
requesting goods or services has the authority to do so.
- Activities shall provide users with a receipt or similar written
confirmation for each sale of goods or services at the time the sale is
made. In addition, recharge users shall be provided a detailed monthly
statement for each Index Number recharged.
- Activities shall initiate recharge or other billing transactions when goods
and services are provided. Activities shall not initiate recharge or other
billing transactions in advance of providing goods and services. Progress recharges or billings may be made for jobs in process.
- Activities shall follow record retention policies contained in Policy and
Procedure Manual480-20.
- Specific Policies
In addition to the general policies described above, recharge and other billing
transactions may be initiated only by those activities that adhere to the specific
policies enumerated below.
- Auxiliary Enterprises
- Establishment
- There must be a regular and continuing demand by students,
faculty or staff for the goods or services to be provided by the
enterprise. The demand must be significant, both in dollar
amounts and number of transactions.
- There must be a three year operating plan which includes at a
minimum, the proposed annual budgets, annual operating
statements and balance sheets, proposed rates or rate
methodology, funding sources for start-up costs, funding sources
for equipment, funding sources for working capital, and funding
sources for anticipated or unanticipated operating deficits.
- Costing and Pricing
- Auxiliary enterprises shall be charged for all overhead costs that
are determined to benefit them, including costs of operation and
maintenance of plant and, in addition, central campus
administrative services.
- Auxiliary enterprises shall establish rates sufficient to recover all
direct and overhead costs.
- Auxiliary enterprises may set rates that not only recover all
direct and overhead costs, but also accumulate funds for working
capital.
- Administration
- Per Systemwide policy, at least once every five years each
auxilliary enterprise shall be reviewed to assure that it continues
to serve an important University need, is cost-effective
considering alternative commercial sources, and only incidentally
serves the general public. Each evaluation shall result in a written
report that justifies the decision by the Chancellor to continue
or discontinue the enterprise.
- Service Enterprises and Academic Support Activities
- Establishment
- There must be a regular and continuing demand for the goods or
services to be provided by the service enterprise or academic
support activity. The demand must stem from multiple users and
be significant, both in dollar amounts and in number of
transactions.
- There must be an annual operating plan which includes at a
minimum, the proposed annual budget, annual operating
statement, proposed rates or rate methodology, funding sources
for start-up costs, funding sources for equipment, funding
sources for working capital, and funding sources for anticipated
or unanticipated operating deficits.
- Costing and Pricing
- Other than acquisitions funded by the Federal government, all
inventoriable equipment assigned to service enterprises or
academic support activities shall be depreciated.
- Depreciation costs shall be considered direct costs and an
equipment replacement reserve fund shall be established.
- Depreciation shall be on a straight-line basis, unless it can
be demonstrated that some other method is more
appropriate.
- Under certain circumstances, service enterprises and academic
support activities may establish rates which recover not only all
direct costs, but also accumulate funds for working capital.
- If Federal funds are recharged, a refund of that portion of
the recharge rate representing working capital accumulation
must be made to Federal funds.
- Alternatively, certain service enterprises or academic
support activities may refuse to provide goods or services
to Federally-funded users.
- Administration
- Service enterprises and academic support activities shall be
operated on a break-even basis. A year-end surplus should not
exceed an amount equivalent to an average two months of
operating costs. By October 1 of the following fiscal year,
activities with surplus balances in excess of this limitation must
provide General Accounting with their planned action to reduce
or eliminate these surplus/deficit balances.
- A surplus or deficit balance occurring in any year shall be taken into
consideration when adjusting rates of a subsequent year.
- In exceptional cases where such adjustment would create a
severe fluctuation in rates from one year to the next,
achievement of a break-even balance may be extended for
a reasonable period.
- Labor Clearing Funds
- Establishment
- There must be a regular and continuing need, within a specific
department, to fund salaries, benefits, and related costs
such as network/telecommunication access fees from multiple sources in
amounts that vary from period to period. The costs and the
number of funding sources must be significant.
- It must be demonstrated that the advantages of establishing a
labor clearing fund significantly outweigh directly charging the
cost to the multiple sources. The typical labor clearing fund
avoids the need for complex split-funding of personnel and related costs.
- There must be an annual operating plan which includes at a
minimum, the projected annual volume of personnel and related costs to be
recorded by the labor clearing fund, a listing of the funds to
which the costs will be cleared and the methodology to be used. Although not a recharge activity, a labor clearing fund does
distribute costs using a unique rate methodology. Prior to a labor
clearing fund's establishment, its proposed rate methodology
must be reviewed and approved by the Committee. Subsequent
proposed revisions to a labor clearing fund's methodology also
must be reviewed and approved by the Committee.
- Costing and Pricing
- The labor clearing fund shall be charged only the personnel and related costs
to be cleared.
- In a typical labor clearing fund, rate methodology will provide
separate, unique rates for each person in the group.
- Administration
- Labor clearing funds shall be operated on a break-even basis.
- A written explanation of a surplus or deficit balance occurring at the
end of any given fiscal year shall be submitted to General
Accounting after the end of each fiscal year.
- A surplus or deficit balance occurring in any year shall be corrected
in the succeeding year.
Exhibit D provides detailed illustrations of the establishment and
costing and pricing of labor clearing funds.
- Miscellaneous Sales Activities
- Establishment
- There must be a continuing demand for the goods or services to
be provided by the miscellaneous activity.
- There must be an annual operating plan which includes at a
minimum, the proposed annual budget, annual operating
statement, proposed rates or rate methodology, funding sources
for start-up costs, funding sources for equipment, funding
sources for working capital, and funding sources for anticipated
or unanticipated operating deficits.
- Administration
- Normally miscellaneous sales activities shall be operated on a
break-even basis. A year-end surplus or deficit balance should not exceed an
amount equivalent to an average two months of operating costs.
- A surplus or deficit balance occurring in any year shall be taken into
consideration when adjusting rates of a subsequent year.
- In exceptional cases where such adjustment would create a
severe fluctuation in rates from one year to the next,
achievement of a break-even balance may be extended for
a reasonable period.
- Activities with an unacceptable surplus or deficit balance in three
consecutive years are required to revise their charge rates.
- PROCEDURES
- Establishing New Activities
Requests to establish new recharge or other income producing activities shall follow
the procedures enumerated below.
- Requests shall include the information outlined inExhibit A of this chapter.
- Requests shall be reviewed and approved by the cognizant Department Chair
or Administrative Unit Head and forwarded to the Chair of the Recharge Rate
Review Committee.
- The Chair of the Recharge Rate Review Committee shall review the request. If
the proposed activity has projected annual income of less than $10,000, the
Chair may approve the activity on behalf of the full Committee. In such cases,
the Chair will notify the full Committee of the approval.
- If the Chair determines a request to be deficient, the request shall be returned
to the office that originated the request. The Chair also shall provide notice
of such action to the cognizant Department Chair or Administrative Unit Head.
- If the Chair determines a request is satisfactory, the Chair shall distribute
copies of the request to each member of the Recharge Rate Review Committee
for review.
- After reviewing the request, Committee members will send the Chair an e-mail
or other acknowledgment which indicates their concurrence with the proposal
or which provides comments, questions or objections.
- The Chair shall summarize and submit all Committee members' comments,
questions, and objections to the office that originated the request. The
Chair also shall submit a copy to the cognizant Department Chair or
Administrative Unit Head.
- The office that originated the request shall provide the Chair with responses
to all comments, questions, and objections. The originating office also shall
submit a copy of the responses to the cognizant Department Chair or
Administrative Unit Head.
- The Chair will submit the responses to each member of the Committee.
- If the Committee has no comments, questions or objections, or after
satisfactory resolution of all comments, questions or objections, the Chair shall
submit the Committee's recommendations to the Assistant Vice Chancellor,
Business and Financial Services for review and approval.
- Upon approval by the Assistant Vice Chancellor, Business and Financial
Services, the Chair shall provide the originating office, cognizant
Department Chair or Administrative Unit Head, and Business and Financial
Services - General Accounting Division with a written notice stating the
following:
- The request to establish the new activity has been approved by the
campus Recharge Rate Review Committee.
- The effective start date of the new activity.
- The approved rates or rate methodology of the new activity.
- Business and Financial Services-General Accounting Division shall provide the
originating office with a written notice stating the following:
- The accounting distribution of the new activity.
- General Accounting contact for the new activity.
- If the approved service center's charge rates include equipment depreciation,
the originating office shall obtain a discrete custodial code for that activity
from Equipment Management, and file an EIMR transferring all of the activity
equipment to the new custodial code.
- Revising Established Activities
Requests by established activities to change rates, to change rate methodology and
to add rates for new goods or services shall follow the procedures enumerated
below.
- Requests shall include the information outlined in Exhibit B of this chapter.
- Requests shall be reviewed and approved by the cognizant Department Chair
or Administrative Unit Head and forwarded to the Chair of the Recharge Rate
Review Committee.
- The Chair of the Recharge Rate Review Committee shall review the request. If
the proposed activity has projected annual income of less than $10,000, the
Chair may approve the activity on behalf of the full Committee. In such cases,
the Chair will notify the full Committee of the approval.
- If the Chair determines a request to be deficient, the request shall be returned
to the office that originated the request. The Chair also shall provide notice
of such action to the cognizant Department Chair or Administrative Unit Head.
- If the Chair determines a request is satisfactory, the Chair shall distribute
copies of the request to each member of the Recharge Rate Review Committee
for review.
- After reviewing the request, Committee members will send the Chair an e-mail
or other acknowledgment which indicates their concurrence with the proposal
or which provides comments, questions or objections.
- The Chair shall summarize and submit all Committee members' comments,
questions, and objections to the office that originated the request. The
Chair also shall submit a copy to the cognizant Department Chair or
Administrative Unit Head.
- The office that originated the request shall provide the Chair with responses
to all comments, questions, and objections. The originating office also shall
submit a copy of the responses to the cognizant Department Chair or
Administrative Unit Head.
- The Chair will submit the responses to each member of the Committee.
- If the Committee has no comments, questions or objections, or after
satisfactory resolution of all comments, questions or objections, the Chair shall
submit the Committee's recommendations to the Assistant Vice Chancellor,
Business and Financial Services for review and approval.
- Upon approval by the Assistant Vice Chancellor, Business and Financial
Services, the Chair shall provide the originating office, the cognizant
Department Chair or Administrative Unit Head, and Business and Financial
Services - General Accounting Division a written notice stating the following:
- The request to change rates, rate methodology, or add rates for new
goods or services has been approved by the campus Recharge Rate
Review Committee.
- The effective date of the approval.
- Annually after final closing, General Accounting will produce a listing of any recharge
activities with a surplus or deficit balance in excess of an amount equivalent to
an average two months of operating costs. For those activities which have
not provided the information required by Section V.B.2. above by October 1 of
the following year, General Accounting will contact any such activities, and request a written assurance that the surplus or deficit balance will not continue, describing the
basis for the assurance. General Accounting will notify the Chair of the Recharge
Review Committee of any activities with an unacceptable surplus or deficit balance in
three consecutive years. The Chair will notify any such activities that they are
required to revise their charge rates.
- RESPONSIBILITY
- Office Originating Request
- Submits to cognizant Department Chair or Administrative Unit Head request to
establish new recharge or other income producing activities, request to change
rates or rate methodology of established activities, or request to add rates for
new goods or services of established activities.
- Participates in resolution of comments, questions, and objections to request.
- Assures costing and pricing policies are followed. Obtains a discrete custodial
code for the activity if any equipment depreciation is included in the charge
rates and processes an EIMR to transfer the equipment to the new custodial
code.
- Maintains supporting documentation for sales transactions.
- Provides sales confirmations to users, including a detailed monthly statement
for recharge users.
- Conforms to approved cash-handling, billing and recharge procedures.
- Department Chair or Administrative Unit Head
- Reviews and approves request from originating office.
- Forwards request to Chair of Recharge Rate Review Committee.
- Participates in resolution of comments, questions, and objections to request.
- Chair of Recharge Rate Review Committee
- Reviews request received from Department Chair or Administrative Unit Head.
- Coordinates review process, including resolution of Committee comments,
questions and objections.
- Submits Committee's recommendations to the Assistant Vice Chancellor,
Business and Financial Services.
- Forwards request to establish new activity to Resource Management-Budget
Operations, Planning and Analysis.
- Provides written confirmation of approved requests to originating office,
cognizant Department Chair or Administrative Unit Head, and Business and
Financial Services - General Accounting Division.
- Notify any activities with an unacceptable surplus or deficit balance in three consecutive
years that they are required to revise their charge rates.
- As needed extracts all equipment under custodial codes associated with sales
and service operating funds and excludes them from campus overhead rate or
Unrelated Business Income calculations.
- Recharge Rate Review Committee
- Reviews request distributed by Committee Chair.
- Communicates comments, questions, and objections to Chair.
- Participates in resolution of comments, questions and objections relating to
request.
- Equipment Management
- Establishes discrete custodial codes for new activities that include
equipment depreciation in their charge rates.
- Associates the activity's custodial code with the activity's operating fund.
- Business and Financial Services
- Assistant Vice Chancellor Business and Financial Services
- Provides final approval to request.
- General Accounting Division
- Provides accounting distribution for new activity.
- Reviews and approves recharge procedures.
- Produce an annual listing of any recharge activities with a surplus or
deficit balance in excess of an amount equivalent to an average two
months of operating costs.
- For those activities which have not provided the information required by
Section V.B.2., above, by October 1 of the following year, contact such
activities and request a written assurance that the surplus or deficit balance will
not continue, describing the basis for the assurance.
- Notify the Chair of the Recharge Review Committee of any activities
with an unacceptable surplus or deficit balance in three consecutive years.
- Bursars Office
- Reviews and approves cash-handling and billing procedures.
EXHIBIT A
INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR
REQUEST TO ESTABLISH NEW ACTIVITY
- Briefly describe the proposed activity and the goods or services to be provided by it.
- Provide the following information:
- The name and title of the faculty member or administrator who accepts responsibility
for the activity.
- The requested starting date of the activity.
- The name and mail code of the activity's financial manager.
- If the proposed activity has primary use of a specific space, provide the building(s)
and room number(s).
- Briefly describe and indicate locations of commercial and other non-University sources from
which similar goods or services may be obtained.
- Briefly describe other University sources from which similar goods or services may be
obtained.
- If similar goods or services may be obtained from non-University sources or other
University sources, explain the necessity for the proposed activity.
- If the goods or services have been provided free of charge in the past:
- Describe and provide the account distribution of past funding.
- Explain the necessity for now charging for the goods or services.
- State the proposed activity's anticipated number of monthly users.
- State the proposed activity's anticipated monthly dollar volume of combined recharge and
other income.
- State the number of years the activity is anticipated to continue to provide its goods or
services.
- State the estimated percentage of users by the following categories:
- UC Departments:
- Fed & Fed flow-thru funded users ________ %
- Non-Federally funded users ________ %
- UC Individuals:
- Student ________ %
- Faculty ________ %
- Staff ________ %
- Patients ________ %
- Non-UC Individuals & Entities ________ %
Total 100 %
- Briefly describe any unique connection between the proposed activity and any Federal
contract or grant, including:
- Any subsidy, direct or overhead, to be provided by the Federal contract(s) or
grant(s).
- Any limitation the Federal contract(s) or grant(s) place on use of the proposed
activity's income.
- Briefly describe any unique connection between the proposed activity and any non- Federal
funding source, including:
- Any subsidy, direct or indirect, to be provided the funding source.
- Any limitation the funding source places on use of the proposed activity's income.
- If goods or services are to be sold to non-University individuals or entities, provide
information conclusively showing that satisfactory commercial or other non-University
sources for similar goods or services do not exist elsewhere.
- Provide the following financial information:
- Proposed rates with supporting calculations. SAMPLE RATE CALCULATIONS
APPEAR IN EXHIBIT C. In the case of certain auxiliary enterprises and support
groups, proposed pricing or rate methodology may be substituted for individual rates.
- A projected annual operating(profit and loss) statement. Proposed auxiliary
enterprises must submit projected annual operating statements for three years.
- A projected balance sheet for the end of the first full year of operations. Proposed
auxiliary enterprises must submit projected balance sheets for the end of each of the
first three full years of operations.
- Proposed funding sources for:
- Start-up costs.
- Working capital.
- Equipment to be acquired.
- Operating deficits, anticipated or unanticipated.
- A listing of initial equipment, including UC identification number, UC custodial code,
date of acquisition, purchase order number, cost and funding source for the cost.
- If equipment is to be depreciated, the listing described in paragraph f, above, should
be expanded to include, for each item of equipment, the projected useful life of the
item, the calculated per-year depreciation for the item, and the total depreciation of
all items for the first full year of operations.
- Provide the following tax information:
- Sales Tax. If the proposed activity will sell tangible personal property(goods),
explain why the activity should NOT be subject to California sales tax regulations.
- Unrelated Business Income Tax. If the proposed activity will sell goods or services to
individuals or entities, explain how the sales will relate to the University's educational
or research mission. SALES NOT RELATED TO THE UNIVERSITY'S EDUCATIONAL
OR RESEARCH MISSION WILL BE REPORTED AS UNRELATED BUSINESS INCOME
AND WILL BE SUBJECT TO FEDERAL INCOME TAX REGULATIONS.
- If the proposed activity will have point of sale, or cash, transactions, provide a copy of
cash handling procedures. CASH HANDLING PROCEDURES MUST BE APPROVED BY THE
BURSARS OFFICE.
- If the proposed activity will recharge other University departments, provide a copy of
recharge procedures, including a sample of the monthly statement to be provided recharge
users. RECHARGE PROCEDURES MUST BE APPROVED BY GENERAL ACCOUNTING.
Exhibit B
INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR
REQUEST TO CHANGE RATES OR RATE METHODOLOGY
AND
REQUEST TO ADD RATES FOR NEW GOODS OR SERVICES
- Briefly describe the activity and the goods or services currently provided by it.
- Provide a list comparing existing rates with proposed rates.
- Provide a brief description of the basis for the proposed rate changes.
- Provide the following information:
- The name and title of the faculty member or administrator currently responsible for
the activity.
- The requested effective date of the proposed rate changes.
- The name and mail code of the activity's financial manager.
- If the activity has primary use of a specific space, provide the building(s) and room
numbers.
- A sample of the monthly statement currently provided recharge users.
- State the percentage of current users by the following categories:
- UC Departments:
- Fed & Fed flow-thru funded users ________ %
- Non-Federally funded users ________ %
- UC Individuals:
- Students ________ %
- Faculty ________ %
- Staff ________ %
- Patients ________ %
- Non-UC Individuals & Entities ________ %
Total 100 %
- Briefly describe any unique connection between the activity and any Federal contract or
grant, including:
- Any subsidy, direct or indirect, provided by the Federal contract(s) or grant(s).
- Any limitation the Federal contract(s) or grant(s) place on use of the activity's
income.
- Briefly describe any unique connection between the activity and any non-Federal funding
source, including:
- Any subsidy, direct or indirect, provided by the funding source.
- Any limitation the funding source places on use of the activity's income.
- If goods or services are sold to non-University individuals or entities, provide information
conclusively showing that satisfactory commercial or other non-University sources for
similar goods or services do not exist elsewhere.
- Provide the following financial information:
- Supporting calculations for the proposed rate changes. SAMPLE RATE
CALCULATIONS APPEAR IN EXHIBIT C OF THIS PPM. In the case of certain
auxiliary enterprises and support groups, proposed pricing or rate methodology may
be substituted for individual rates.
- A projected annual operating(profit and loss) statement reflecting the rate changes.
- Provide the following tax information:
- Does the activity currently collect California sales tax?
- Does the activity currently report Unrelated Business Income?
- If the request includes a proposal by an existing activity to establish rates for new goods or
services, provide the following additional information:
- Briefly describe and indicate locations of commercial and other non-University
sources from which similar goods or services may be obtained.
- Briefly describe other University sources from which similar goods or services may be
obtained.
- If similar goods or services may be obtained from non-University sources or other
University sources, explain the necessity for the proposed activity.
- If the goods or services have been provided free of charge in the past:
- Describe and provide the accounting distribution of past funding.
- Explain the necessity for now charging for the goods or services.
- State the anticipated number of monthly users of the goods or services.
- State the anticipated monthly dollar volume of combined recharge and other income
from the goods or services.
- If the new goods or services are to be sold to non-University individuals or entities,
provide information conclusively showing that satisfactory commercial or other non-University sources for similar goods or services do not exist elsewhere.
Exhibit C-1
SAMPLE OF
CALCULATION OF PRODUCTIVE HOURS
The estimation of productive hours used in calculating recharge rates is determined by deducting
from available working hours vacation, holiday, and sick hours usage and non-productive hours
used for clean-up, general maintenance, etc.
Vacation hours earned varies by individual. Determination of sick-leave usage and non-productive
hours can be estimated using past experience of the department as a guide.
The productive hours calculated are those hours that are expected to be rechargeable.
An example follows:
|
Employee
1
|
Employee
2
|
Employee
3
|
Total
|
Total
Working Hours
|
2.088
|
2.088
|
2.088
|
6.264
|
Less:
Vacation Hours
|
120
|
120
|
160
|
400
|
Holiday
Hours
|
104
|
104
|
104
|
312
|
Sick
Leave Hours
|
56
|
56
|
56
|
168
|
Non-Productive
Hours
|
144
|
120
|
120
|
384
|
Total
Deductions
|
424
|
400
|
440
|
1.264
|
Productive
hours
|
1.664
|
1.688
|
1.648
|
5,000
|
|
|