KR PD Tech Tip – Budget Comments
As CSU rises to the challenge of developing and submitting more complex proposals, proposal budgets also become more complex. The system still allows only one budget version to be marked ‘include for submission’, but the process of getting to that version of the budget may require iterated or partial budget versions. There are also reasons […]
Charging Salary on 53 Accounts
Principal Investigators (PIs) and personnel paid on grants should charge for actual effort contributed to a sponsored project when the work occurs. Sometimes work is conducted during the academic year and other times during the summer. The three scenarios below show how effort might be distributed during the academic year, summer, or both and the […]
KR PD Approver Roles Refresher
Approval is an important and required step in the routing process of a Kuali Research Proposal Development record. In addition to the approvals of the key personnel, CSU requires approval by authorized department and college representatives. Some departments also require proposal pre-approval by a business official. KR PD Approver Roles: Department Pre-Approver This is an […]
KR PD Roles Refresher
Access to KR PD records is handled three ways: • The system allows the person who creates a KR PD record to open it in view or edit mode, and allows named key personnel to open in view mode.• The person who creates a KR PD record or another proposal aggregator can assign proposal-specific view […]
Supplemental Information: Brief Synopsis in KR PD
Brief Synopsis is a required field in KR PD. Data in this field can help provide transparency on the types of research being conducted at CSU and is used for reporting purposes. The information entered here should include project details that are not readily available from other data fields in KR (such as the Project […]
Auxiliary Funds and Sponsored Programs – Sponsored Work in Progress
Sponsored Projects Work in Progress accounts (SPWIP – 88) allow for the accumulation of costs for the fabrication of equipment or models. A fabrication takes place when the university makes or builds something inhouse and the resulting product meets the definition of capital equipment. See FPI 4-7 for information on costs that are allowable in a WIP account. If equipment […]
Auxiliary Funds and Sponsored Programs – Sponsored Work in Progress
Sponsored Projects Work in Progress accounts (SPWIP – 88) allow for the accumulation of costs for the fabrication of equipment or models. A fabrication takes place when the university makes or builds something inhouse and the resulting product meets the definition of capital equipment. See FPI 4-7 for information on costs that are allowable in […]
Auxiliary Funds and Sponsored Programs –General Operations
General Operations accounts (GENOP – 22) are used to collect revenue when public services are provided to students, faculty, staff, and to the external community using the expertise of CSU faculty/staff. While there may be sales to University departments, sales should never be to CSU sponsored accounts, nor should there be any Federal sponsored activity […]
KR PD TIP – Budget validations
One of the steps in proposal budget review is to change the status of the budget OSP is supposed to review to ‘Complete.’ If you are not able to change a budget version’s status to ‘Complete,’ the system is catching budget data issues that affect accurate calculations. NOTE: The validations that run on the proposal […]
Auxiliary Funds and Sponsored Programs – Recharge Centers
Recharge Center accounts (RECHAR – 21) are for the purpose of accumulating and billing costs internally. The account records the supplying of goods and services at cost by one University department or unit and billed to other University departments, projects, or units after services are complete. Established 21 accounts will have an approved business plan and […]