All stages of grant development, from proposal through application to award and closing, are addressed. In addition, user-defined statuses can be created to complement any of the lifecycle statuses delivered as standard.

This is an object used as a cost collector to reflect the organization’s sponsored projects.

This is an object used to summarize the organization’s revenues and expenses based on the sponsor’s requirements.

The GM budgeting functions are based on the grant lifecycle statuses and support planning and application development (preaward) as well as post-award budgeting and any sponsor cost sharing requirements.

GM uses the SD billing functions, slightly modified for sponsored program billing requirements. The following scenarios are supported:

GM also provides a facility for producing invoices for individual grants and offers mass processing by sponsor, range of sponsors, grants, or range of grants. Grant postings can be changed before the sponsor invoice is created. For example, postings can be blocked (postponed), partially blocked, or billed in full.

GM delivers functions to compute the sponsor’s IDC expense and record a financial posting in the organization’s accounting ledgers. IDC rates are assigned to each grant for each sponsored program + sponsored class combination and multiple IDC recovery accounts for the organization’s recognition of IDC revenues are available. IDC rates and recovery accounts are time-dependent and can be capped.

This is an online, centralized area for recording information related to the administration of a grant. Examples include SAP documents, electronic and software files, and sponsor-related URLs.

This is an integrated workplace for defining, scheduling, and monitoring periodic processes with a special focus on batch jobs and batch workflows. Schedule Manager can be used for any type of period process.