5 Ways Automation Improves Grant Management
For many colleges and universities, grant administration can feel like a juggling act — balancing deadlines, compliance needs, budgets, and reporting, often with limited staff and resources....
Delegating Expenditure Approvals: Streamlining Acquisition While Ensuring Compliance
In a PUI (Primarily Undergraduate Institution) it is common for the post award arm of the institution to perform a 100% expenditure review and approval. Yet, increasingly, these individuals are...
Budget Summary Report Format for Research Financial Management
Budget spend-down management is a fundamental part of grant fund management, and generating accurate, easy-to-read financial reports is a key part of this process. A summary budget report is...
How We Became RAs: the Unexpected Career Path to Research Administration
Four Cayuse employees explain how their career path led them into the field of research administration.
How to Handle Today’s Grant Accounting Challenges
Learn how to address specific grant accounting challenges and monitor varying funding sources with Cayuse.
Why Effective Grant Accounting Goes Beyond the General Ledger
Find out why effective grant accounting can't be handled sufficiently within a typical research institution’s general ledger.
Why Project Personnel Costs for Sponsored Research?
For today’s research-intensive organization, tracking personnel costs for sponsored research is a major factor. That’s because the majority of project costs stem from research personnel required...
Common Mistakes Associated With Recharge Centers
Research organizations have to manage a lot of compliance risks to ensure research operations are ethical and any audits go smoothly. One of the many areas to manage is the organization or...
Avoiding Audit Findings: Examples of Grant Fraud and How to Prevent It
In grant award audits, fraud is a key consideration. Let's talk about audit findings related to defrauding government funds. Types of grant fraud According to the National Science Foundation...
Monitoring Indirect Cost Encumbrances on Sponsored Projects
Monitoring indirect cost encumbrances of sponsored projects is a critical component of the indirect cost recovery process. Here's how to do it.