Author: Demetrice S. Bryant
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Important Date Definitions in PeopleSoft
There are Four dates that are really important to all grant administrators in PeopleSoft (PS). They are the Start Date, End Date, Closed Date, and the Closed Commitment Date. Start Date: This is the familiar “Start Date” that we currently use for awards. In the current and PS world, the Start Date is the date…
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Audit News
This is the eleventh in a series of newsletter abstracts of audits to bring you up to date with what is happening in the Federal audit arena. Please not there is a considerable lag between when the audit occurred and when the audit report is published. University of California – Berkeley – March 3, 2008…
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Clinical Trial Invoices & Checks
With the PeopleSoft go-live date less than four months away, changes are imminent for processing clinical trial invoices and checks. To ease the transition and save some work and time in the departments, we are requesting that a copy of each clinical trial invoice be sent to the Office of Grants and Contracts Accounting using…
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Audit News
This is the tenth in a series of newsletter abstracts of audits to bring you up to date with what is happening in the Federal audit arena. Please note there is a considerable lag between when an audit occurred and when the audit report is published. University of Utah Audit – November 15, 2007 Audit…
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Audit News
This is the ninth in a series of newsletter abstracts of audits to bring you up to date with what is happening in the Federal audit arena. Please note that there is a considerable lag between when an audit occurred and when the audit report is published. Brandeis University Audit – September 6, 2007 Audit…
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Audit News
This is the eighth in a series of newsletter abstracts of audits to bring you up to date in what is happening in the Federal audit arena. Please note there is a considerable lag between when an audit occurred and when the audit report is published. Duke University Audit – January 21, 2009 Audit Agency:…
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Laptop Disallowance in Recent Federal Audit
Rest in peace, laptops. As a result of a recent audit at Duke University, the charging of laptop computers has come under scrutiny. In the Duke audit, one of the disallowed costs was a laptop costing $3,364 plus F&A of $1,817 totaling $5,181. the sum represented 13.3% of the disallowed costs. Because it was a…
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Grants Management Tools: Project Forecast and Project Variance
While the highly anticipated Grants Report is in its final stages of development, there are a couple of tools currently available to help manage the grants budgeting process. Grants > Award > Interactive Reports > Project Volume. Project Forecast, pulling from the Project Resource Table provides: Begin and End Dates for a given project The…
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Audit News
This is the seventh in a series of newsletter abstracts of audits to bring you up to date with what is happening in the Federal audit arena. this month we have an audit of the University of Puerto Rico. Please note there is a considerable lag between when an audit occurs and when the audit…
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Computers…
To charge or not to charge, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous expense, Or to take arms against a sea of regulations And by opposing, end them Almost certainly the OMB doesn’t consider the dilemma it places researchers in akin to Shakespeare’s Hamlet,…