Category: RGC
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Upcoming Courses and Events From OSP and OGCA
The Office of Sponsored Programs and the Office of Grants and Contracts Accounting provide training to those who have pre-award and post-award research administration responsibilities across campus. These training sessions are intended to provide a foundation that supports the on the job training occurring daily in your areas. A list of our upcoming courses and…
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New Tool Coming to Assist Departmental and RAS Administrators with Post End Date Analysis
Emory University reached a notable milestone on 8/31/13 when we achieved the status of no delinquent financial reports on sponsored programs. Thanks to everyone throughout the University who contributed to this major accomplishment! Going forward, it will be important that we continue to ensure that all of our reports are submitted on time. First and…
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Clinical Trial Award Counts on ORA Reports
In June of 2013, the Office of Research Administration made a change to the way supplemental awards are counted and reported. This change relates to how industry clinical trial awards are counted. Previously, each payment received for an industry clinical trial was counted as a separate “supplemental award.” These individual payments are no longer being…
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Inbound Freight Charges on Sponsored Awards
In an effort to reduce the costs of inbound freight on our purchases, Emory University is using Vantage Point Logistics (VPL) as a third party intermediary between the University, Federal Express and our suppliers. Instead of charging us their own shipping rates, suppliers will use Emory’s Federal Express account number for shipments. Federal Express will…
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The OGCA Help Desk is Here!
The Office of Grants and Contracts Accounting (OGCA) Help Desk is now up, running, and available to you. You can access the help desk by either placing a call or sending an email. Email is our preferred method of receiving inquiries. An assigned OGCA staff member forwards the email to the appropriate contact for a…
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OGCA’s New Help Desk
Through the exceptional work of our faculty, Emory’s research funding and activity has grown significantly over the past decade. In an effort to provide better post-award support, OGCA is implementing help desks. Help desk services will be fully operational by May 15, 2013. To promote personal service, each department will be assigned to a team.…
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F & A Reminder
The Facilities and Administrative (F&A) rate is a percentage measure of the overhead (indirect) costs incurred to support sponsored activity (including organized research, other sponsored activities, and sponsored instruction) conducted by the University. The application of the rate is the mechanism used to reimburse the University for overhead costs incurred in supporting these activities. At…
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Request to put a Project on Hold
A request for a project to be put on HOLD should be made when… The master department of an award needs to prevent further transactions from hitting a particular project; when a department needs to prevent further transactions from hitting one of their own projects; when a research sponsor submits a ‘stop work order’ on…