91²Ö¿â Us
Grants Accounting is a unit of the Controller's Office and oversees the accounting and financial management of grants and contracts for all eight 91²Ö¿â campuses.
Our Roles and Responsibilities include
- Create, maintain, and terminate sponsored project indexes/funds in Banner
- Communicates index/fund numbers to the PI and others as appropriate
- Review grant expenditures to ensure they are budgeted, within the grant period, and allowable
- Purchase Orders
- Check Requests
- P-card Reconciliation allocations
- Expense Reimbursements
- Workflows (cost transfer, salary redistribution, and detail code for fee waivers)
- Subrecipient invoices
- Process journal entries
- Cost Transfers (Salary and Non-Salary)
- Budget Entries
- Year end Indirect Cost allocation
- Prepare and submit to the sponsoring agency
- Invoices
- Financial Reports
- Return of unused funds
- Manage the collection of sponsored project funds
- Draw down Letter of Credit funds
- Monitor Grant Accounts Receivable for timely payment of invoices
- Inform PI and others as appropriate of payment problems
- Monitor project funds and notify PI and others as appropriate when a problem exists, such as
- Budget line overspent beyond allowable limit
- Project deficit
- Failure to meet Cost Share obligations
- Unexpended Program Income funds
- Effort Reporting
- Subrecipient Monitoring
- Certification of Single Audit Reports
- Request and review supporting documentation based on Risk Assessment
- Perform periodic desk reviews as needed
- Share responsibility with Sponsored Programs to formulate, implement, and interpret policies and procedures relating to sponsored projects
- Assist with
- Development and negotiation of the Facilities & Administrative Rate Agreement
- Audits (government, sponsoring agency, and the annual external audit of the university)
- Preparation of various institutional reports and surveys