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...
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...
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...
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.
