OPAFS: Detailed List of Content

Looking for the Office of Post Award Financial Services (OPAFS)? You can now find OPAFS topics on the Finance tab. Please check the links below to see specific pages.

Allocations

• 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

• 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.

Departments

OPAFS

• List of Content
• OPAFS Contacts
• Directions, Maps, & Parking
• Org Chart