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12 Aug 2015: Staff costs are imported into the Grants module monthly. Where Staff costs have been incorrectly coded they can be transferred using the Tools/Transfer function in the Expenditure enquiry screen. Costs which fail validation will go to departmental

12 Aug 2015: Disbursements from petty cash can be charged to a research grant. There is a limit of £25 per item and all petty cash expenditure should be supported by a receipt.

23 Jul 2015: As well as the GL Financial Summary Report, there are other Cognos reports that deal with actual and budgeting variances. Refer to the Finance Division Training webpages Guidance and FAQs, Cognos reports, for a list of reports and detailed assistance

4 Sep 2015: This is used to define the department or institution processing the transaction, e.g. AG for the Finance Division. The first letter can help to indicate the group to which the department belongs.

12 Aug 2015: Your School Team in the Research Operations Office must be notified of all amendments to a grant, e.g. extensions (cost and no cost), supplementary funding and virement of funds between expenditure categories.

5 Aug 2015: Department users are only able to use the Corporate exchange rates (i.e. are unable to enter User exchange rates). CUFS will usually default to this as the Rate Type. If prompted to complete this field when entering a foreign currency transaction,

6 Aug 2015: All modules will be closed at 5 pm on the following dates.

6 Aug 2015: Click on the image to download the checklist Excel: PDF:

29 Jul 2015: Where applications are successful the sponsor will send an ‘Award Letter’ notifying the Research Operations Office and the applying Principal Investigator (PI). If the department of the PI receive a copy directly from the sponsor they should

23 Jul 2015: Cognos reports for monitoring grant expenditure at institutional level are available, including a summary report which provides an overview of grants expenditure and remaining budget on active awards. Furthermore, once-off, bespoke Cognos reports