electronic effort certification
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Electronic Effort Certification. Effort Certification. Effort Certification is required with receipt of Federal funding. If any portion of salary/pay comes from a sponsored project, the entire salary/pay must be certified. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Electronic Effort Certification
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Effort Certification
• Effort Certification is required with receipt of Federal funding.
• If any portion of salary/pay comes from a sponsored project, the entire salary/pay must be certified.
• Federal Government wants assurance that if they pay an individual, the individual worked on the sponsored project.
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Highlights of e~Certs• Increase Efficiency• Increase Compliance (in an increasing audit environment)• Allows Simultaneous Certification• Paper Reduction-Printing will be rare• System developed internally (external costs ~ $1 Million)• Automatic email notification• Implementation to begin with quarter ending 3/31/11• New Online system will be accessed through Banner Self
Service• Automatic digital Storage
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Effort Reporting Webpage
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http://www.auburn.edu/administration/business_office/cga/effort-certification.html
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Log into e~Cert System (via AUACCESS)
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Click Here
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Log into e~Cert System (via AUACCESS)
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Log into e~Cert System (via AUACCESS)
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Log into e~Cert System (via AUACCESS)
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Banner Self Service
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Principal Investigators & Co-Principal Investigators
• 3 Ways to certify effort
a. Individual certificationb. Grant certificationc. Multiple Grant certification
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Individual Certification
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Individual Certification
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Person’s Information
Status for Document
Certify
Warnings per FOAP line
Routing Queues
Line Certification
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Grant Certification
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Multiple Grant Certification
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Multiple Grant Certification
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End User Benefits of e~Certs
• Allow Principal Investigators to certify their funds• Allow Department Heads to certify their employees
or organizations• Allow authorized employees/research personnel to
certify their own labor distributions• Allow authorized departmental administrators to
save or certify unrestricted/non-sponsored FOAPs• Allow FYI contacts to view and save reports
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Monitoring Status
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Personnel View
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Basic Labor View
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Advanced Labor View By Grant
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Departmental Views
Who uses these?• Department Heads• Department Financial Administrators• Department PAR Administrators
What can they see?• Department Actions• Department Overview• Department Personnel Views• Department Sponsored Programs• Department Non-Sponsored Programs
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Department Actions
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Department Overview
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Department Personnel View
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Department Sponsored Programs
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Department Non-Sponsored Programs
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Request to Unlock A Row• Only rows which have been certified are
available• After selecting which rows in a certification
need to be unlocked, give a reason• This now appears under “Awaiting Action”• Contracts and Grants Accounting will have
to approve the request
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Request to Unlock A Row
Go To Other Tab and select Request a document unlocked
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Request to Unlock A Row
Only rows which have been certified are available
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Request to Unlock A Row
After selecting which rows in a certification need to be unlocked, give a reason
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Request to Unlock A Row
This now appears on the Awaiting Action Tab
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Request to Unlock A Row
Upon Certification, a note is made to the document
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“SAVE” Options
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Blue – saved value
Yellow – unlocked row
CertifiedPerson / Date
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Person Search
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Email Notification System
• Automatic notifications to be emailed:1. 5th day after quarter end-PAR Administrators; Dept. Financial Administrators2. 10th day after quarter end-PI, Co-PI, Faculty, Research Personnel, Dept Head, ADR, Dean’s Contact3. 30th day after quarter end-PI, Co-PI, Faculty, Research Personnel, PAR Administrator4. 35th day after quarter end-PI, Co-PI, Faculty, Research Personnel, PAR Administrator, Dept Financial Administrator, Dept Head, ADR, Dean’s Contact, Dean5. 40th day after quarter end-End of business day: System is closed
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Consequence of Not Certifying an Effort Report within 40 Days of
Quarter End
• Expense related to the effort recorded on a sponsored or cost share FOP will be transferred to an unrestricted departmental funding source.
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Questions?
Contact information:Melanie Cosby [email protected] 844-6183David Hennessey [email protected] 844-6184Effort Certification [email protected] 844-4847
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