How to Avoid Grant Award Audits Related to Misrepresentation of Effort
Each organization is responsible for ensuring that direct expenses charged to federally sponsored agreements are allowable under a set of strict cost principles. Today, let's talk about audits stemming from misrepresenting effort. Effort certification mandates The...
How to Create Salary Coverage Reports for Personnel at Research Organizations
Salary coverage reports enable research administrators to review current and future salary coverage, so you don’t run out of money.
How Do You Prepare Grant Management Reports?
Funding agencies, research organizations, and other entities commonly require grant management reports. For example, federal funding sources require grantees to submit certain reports at specific times during the life of a grant. All reports must be accurate,...
How to Track Direct and Indirect Grant Costs for Grant Accounting and Management
Let's discuss essentials of grant management and how they impact research organizations looking for grant funding. Grant essentials: direct and indirect costs The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) provides principles for determining direct and indirect costs to...
Evaluating Grant Proposal Submission Success Rates
Monitoring grant submission success rates is a key part of evaluating the financial health of a research organization. It identifies training opportunities and areas of focus for future proposal submissions, as well as aiding planning for growth. Any good grant...
Why Researchers Need Prompt Grant Accounting Reports
Learn how to create and deliver grant accounting reports on a reliable schedule, which will make your research teams happy.
The Grant Lifecycle: How to Improve Post-award Grants Management
Today we're talking about the post-award phase of the grant lifecycle (a previous post discussed the pre-award phase). As a quick refresher, pre-award activities include activities like: Searching for funding Developing proposals Working with internal teams on grant...
3 Tips for Effective Grants Management
Effective grants management is critical to keep the flow of research funding in support of today’s leading research organizations. Since Cayuse serves the nation’s leading research-focused organizations, we're always on the lookout for informative, timely, and helpful...
The Grant Lifecycle: How to Improve Pre-award Processes
"The grant lifecycle" refers to all the phases of a research grant: from the initial idea about what to research and submitting a proposal to receiving funding, doing the actual research, and reporting on the findings and how funding was spent. Each phase of the grant...
3 Grants Management Lessons Learned Recently
Why it’s so important to reduce complexity and other grant management lessons we’ve learned this year.
How to Manage Issues Requiring Administrative Oversight
Pre-award administrative oversight is key to prevent adverse situations and ensure research projects are successfully completed.
Prorating Grant Budgets to Help Estimate the Availability of Funding
It's exciting when a sponsor approves a research proposal. Suddenly researchers have money to fund their studies! But the last thing you want to happen is overspending: going through the funding too fast. Ideally, the money will be evenly spread out throughout the...
Limitations of Grant Tracking Spreadsheets
Research administrators use grant tracking spreadsheets at everywhere from nonprofits and independent research institutes to large, research-intensive universities. They're easy to set up and sort by names of key personnel, funding agency, agency number, project start...
Grants Management Software for Research Administration
Successful research organizations use grants management software for oversight and administration of funding portfolios. These organizations rely on grants to fund their research enterprises, which are composed of highly skilled scientists, post-doctoral fellows, and...
How to Prepare Your Research Office to Go Paperless
You’ll love the benefits of an electronic research administration system! Learn how your research team can ease the transition to an all-digital office.
4 Ways Grant Management Systems Can Help Your Research Organization
Learn how grant management systems can help solve the challenges of administering federally sponsored research projects.
What Are Shadow Accounting Systems, and Should You Have One?
A shadow accounting system is a set of records maintained at a local level that is independent of the centralized system of record, especially if high-level records aren’t specific enough.
Best Practices for Subrecipient Awards Management
Managing subrecipient awards (subawards) may seem daunting, but with a little preparation, the whole process can be made seamless. Here’s what to do.