Contents

• Title and Copyright Information
• Get Help

1 Grants Management Overview

• Overview of Grants Management
• Awards

2 Create Awards

• Award Creation
• Considerations for Creating an Award
• Create Awards Quickly
• Award Validations
• Award and Award Project Validations
• Import Awards
• FAQs for Award Security
  • How can I get access to a business unit to create an award and contract?
  • How can I ensure that a user can access and manage only the awards and projects of a particular organization, not those of the entire business unit?
  • What awards appear in the Awards work area?
• FAQs for Award Budgeting
  • How do I define the financial plan type to create an award project budget?

3 Award Details

• Edit an Award
• Award and Award Project General Details
• Award and Award Project Financial Details
• Award and Award Project Personnel Details
• Award and Award Project Compliance Details
• Multicurrency for Awards and Award Projects
• Award Review Validations
• Add Funding to an Award
• Update Funding and the Related Contract
• Assign Multiple Funding Sources to a Sponsored Project
• Multiple Awards and Funding Sources for a Sponsored Project
• FAQs for Award Details
  • How can I set up a home page of my preference in the Awards work area?
  • Why can't I delete tasks or update project dates for a sponsored project?
• FAQs for Award Dates
  • What's the difference between the award end date and award close date?
  • What transactions are considered if I edit the award start or end date, preaward date, close date, or budget period dates ?
• FAQs for Funding
  • What's cost share?
  • Can I assign a project only to the internal funding source?
  • What's the difference between base and supplemental issues?
  • Why can't I delete a project from an award or delete a funding source from an award project?
• FAQs for Contracts
  • What happens if the award contract numbering is automatic?
  • What happens when you submit a contract?
  • How can I update the contract line and contract project linkage?
  • What's the contract status of an active award?
  • How are bill plan attributes populated in the Update Contract window?

4 Award Distribution

• Project Cost Distribution Using Award Funding Patterns
• Create an Award Funding Pattern
• Award Funding Pattern Example

5 Award Burdening

• Enable Burdening for Internal Funding Sources
• View Burden Schedules
• Create Override Burden Schedules
• FAQs for Award Burdening
  • Where does the default burden schedule for the award come from?
  • What's the precedence in which the Create Burden process checks the burden schedule to calculate burdening?

6 Award Performance

• Award Performance Overview
• Managing Awards and Award Projects
• Important Date Categories
• Federal Financial Report
• FAQs for the Federal Financial Report
  • Why are the burden costs in the Federal Financial Report different from burden expenditure item costs?
  • How can I track the burden cost as direct cost in the Federal Financial Report?
• FAQs for Award Performance
  • Where does the award project data in the graphs that appear on the Award Overview page come from?
  • How do I determine the overspending and underspending limits?
  • What are the project spending statuses?
  • What's projected spend percentage?
  • What's the overspent amount for an award?
  • Why can't I view the financial details of an award?
  • Which budget version is used for reporting financial information?
  • What's the breakdown of funds consumed?
  • Why don't the actual and commitment amounts of the award project map to what I budgeted?