Allocations

• Menu: Sponsored Project Award Allocations
• Sponsored Project Award Allocations: Overview
• Sponsored Project Award Allocations: Special Cases
• How to Prepare a Sponsored Project Award Allocation
• Allocating an Intercampus Sub-award
• Calculating Direct and Indirect Costs
• Preparing a Budget Adjustment to an Existing Allocation (Rebudgeting)

Awards

• Types of Awards

Cost Accounting Standards

• Cost Accounting Standards
• Sponsored Project Fiscal Compliance Overview

Effort Reporting

• Electronic Certification of Effort Reporting Tool (ECERT)

  • Menu: Electronic Certification of Effort Reporting Tool (ECERT)
  • Overview
  • Job Aids
  • FAQs
  • Reading an Effort Report
  • How to Use the ECERT System
  • How to Certify an Effort Report
  • How to Generate an Ad Hoc Effort Report
  • How to Edit an Effort Report
  • How to Monitor the Status of an Effort Report
  • How to Search Effort Reports
  • How to View and Manage Saved Searches

• Personnel Activity Reporting (PAR)
  • Menu: Personnel Activity Reporting
  • Overview
  • Percent of Pay Calculation
  • How to Complete a PAR
  • How to Revise a PAR
  • How to Create a Manual PAR
  • PAR Checklist

Expense transfers

• Menu: Expense Transfers
• Non-Payroll Expense Transfer Overview
• ENPET Overview
• Payroll Expense Transfer Overview
• How to Process a Payroll Expense Transfer

Index/ Fund

• Menu: Index/ Fund for Sponsored Projects
• Index/ Fund for Sponsored Projects Overview
• How to Inactivate an Index
• How to Reactivate an Existing Index
• How to Create a Subsequent Index (Index Copy)
• How to Set Up, Change, or Remove an Early Index Inactivation Date
• E and W Account Code Validation
• E Account Codes (Usually Unallowable)
• W Account Codes (May Be Questionable)
• How to Add, Change, and Delete W Account Codes
• How to View E and W Account Codes
• Intercampus Sub-awards for Sponsored Projects

Managing Sponsored Project Funds

• Menu: Managing Sponsored Project Funds
• Basic Responsibilities
• How to Identify Funds for Which You Are Responsible
• Determining Award Terms and Conditions
• Cost Sharing
• Monitoring Expenses
• Determining Intercampus Sub-Award Balances
• Calculating Indirect Costs on Federal Subcontracts
• Rebudgeting Requests
• Computing Indirect Cost Changes
• Carry-over Requests
• No-Cost Extension Requests
• Preparing for Final or Annual Reporting to the Agency
• Pre-Award Spending
• Indirect Costs Exclusions
• Billing/ Payment Methods
• Monitoring Fund Billing and Payments
• Expanded Authorities
• FDP
• Federal Flow-Through Funds
• SNAP

Other

• Policies and Guidelines
• Other Resources and Links
• NIH/ SAMHSA Salary Limitation

You can also see organizational information on the OPAFS Division.