Author Archives: Claudia Murray

March RCA Office Hours

RCA office hour series continues with the following topics: Thursday, March 2nd from 2:00-3:00 – Cost Share Wednesday, March 22nd from 10:00-11:00 – Intro to Faculty/PI SPFF Dashboard The link to the Zoom meeting can be found in the iO … Continue reading

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01/26/2023 RCA webinar resources

As promised, the recording and transcript of the RCA webinar on 01/26/2023 have been uploaded to the iO Training Catalogue. Please search for the phrase RCA Webinar. They can also be found here: Recording – https://rice.app.box.com/s/huz0ohgmf05gcosimvncn06291slz04n Transcript – https://rice.app.box.com/s/63sh0sihzz2tp1bggjddm5oj6na9nhrx

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RCA Webinar – January 26th

Research and Cost Accounting will be hosting a Webinar on January 26th to discuss research management.  We encourage all faculty and staff who are involved with research awards or projects to attend.  Please share with any faculty members who may … Continue reading

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Payroll Office Hours: Encumbrances

By popular request, the Payroll Office is hosting a special topics office hours focused on Encumbrance Calculations and Management. Materials were prepared in conjunction with the RCA, Finance, Enterprise Systems and HR teams who will also be in attendance. Payroll … Continue reading

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Using the SPFF to prepare for sponsored award closeouts

Most of you have been using the SPFF for over a year in order to see expenses and commitments on your sponsored awards, University awards, and faculty fund projects.  I would like to point out another useful feature that was … Continue reading

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Award Setup Form

New Feature: Award Setup Form added to SPARC award notification emails iO has the capacity to store information about awards that is not captured in the Cayuse documents, but is significant for reporting and analytics.  Until now, RCA has been … Continue reading

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Frequently-used Fund Types and Fund Sources

We’ve had several inquiries lately about what Fund Types and Fund Sources should be used in order to fund projects via Balance Transfer.  Please use the information below for funding Cost-share, Deficit, Salary Cap, and Faculty Fund projects, as well … Continue reading

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Non-Billable projects

We’d like to share some information on the different Non-Billable projects that are available to the departments in iO.  Some of these are created based on information contained in SPARC notices, while others require a help desk ticket to the … Continue reading

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Update to FBDI folder

In order to make the structure more consistent and easier for users, we’re restructuring some of the sub-folders in Box. Currently, you see: We are going to move all of the drop off locations to “drop off here” and all … Continue reading

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Expense Report Costs Posting to Incorrect GL Strings on a Sponsored Project

Hello, everyone: We have received several inquiries lately regarding expenses that posted incorrectly to a department’s Central Operating Fund (100.000000) instead of posting to the appropriate Fund Type and Fund Source for a sponsored project (e.g. 104.040000 or 104.047000). The … Continue reading

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