Financial items checklist

Aim

To provide a checklist for financial items to take in considerations for grant applications.

1) Personnel

    • Junior researcher
    • Research assistant
    • Post-doc
    • Statistician
    • Data manager
    • Senior researcher
    • Professor

2) Material

    • Accommodation (furniture)
    • Computers, software, data storage
    • Literature (ordering, books, subscription)

3) General

    • Courses
    • Congress
    • Travelling expenses
    • Publication costs (open access)

4) ICT

    • Specific software licenses
    • Software development
    • Website design
    • Use of network facilities
    • Purchase of secure mobile storage systems

5) Data management

    • Data management support
    • Designing administrative database for logistic support data gathering
    • Designing data entry system (Blaise and/or internet questionnaires)
    • External scanning of paper questionnaires
    • Development of a website, possibly as an intervention instrument
    • Purchase of computers, laptops, printers
    • Data storage
    • Data manager
    • Data entry clerk

6) Interviews

    • Recruitment and training
    • Examination/review by colleagues
    • Laptops, notebooks and accessories
    • Measurement equipment
    • Hourly rate interviewer
    • Catering
    • Travelling expenses

7) Questionnaires

    • Copying, printed brochures, postal charges
    • Designing lay-out
    • Printing costs
    • Envelope
    • Postal charges
    • Copies
    • Data entry costs
    • Copyright charges
    • Translation costs

8) Measurement equipment

    • Purchase or hire equipment
    • Maintenance equipment
    • Calibrating equipment
    • Transportation costs (hire van)

9) Patients/Participants

    • Recruitment
    • Hire accommodation for information meetings
    • Hire text writer/designer brochure
    • Advertisement costs
    • Incentives
    • Insurance
    • Travelling expenses

10) Intervention

    • Training
    • Hourly rate intervention co-workers
    • Drug/placebo/nutritional supplements
    • Hire accommodation for intervention
    • Equipment
    • Travelling expenses

11) Practices 

    • Recruitment
    • Financial compensation
    • Hire accommodations for meetings
    • External data Licence
    • Sampling costs
    • Expert

12) Finalization

    • Text press release
    • Printing doctoral thesis
    • Quality assurance
    • Archiving and storage
    • Accountancy report
    • Translating article

13) Implementation

    • Video
    • Guidebook
    • Organisational costs seminar or congress
    • Hosting costs website

14) Laboratory         

    • Costs measurements
    • Storage in freezers etc.
    • Sampling equipment
    • Storage containers

15) Hiring expertise

    • METc: WMO/non-WMO assessment expenses
    • Economical evaluation
    • Juridical advice: privacy, contracts

 16) Unforeseen expenses

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