Author Archives: Claudia Murray

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

We have made some changes to the Expenditure Type list for use on Sponsored Projects.  Please use this new list going forward. Expenditure Types 11.01.21

There’s a lot of new terminology that we’re all having to learn with the iO system.  Three of the more important terms are Award, Project, and Task.  Let’s take a quick look at what each one means and what it’s … Continue reading →

The topic of Advance Spending versus Pre-Award has come up recently, so we wanted to provide some information to distinguish the two. Occasionally circumstances arise where you may determine it’s necessary to begin work on your project before the official … Continue reading →

Many of you have reached out to RCA with questions about what COA information you should enter when charging expenses to a project.  We discussed it with the experts, and we have an easy answer for you: the COA information … Continue reading →

For those who missed it, last week the Budget Office sent out the following information  about how to process balance transfers in the new system: There is now a new interim transfer process for handling fund balance transfers, formerly called … Continue reading →