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Can the 2019 Compliance Supplement Really Come Out in January?

June 20, 2018 – 10:40 am

Now that 2018 is almost half over, why not turn our attention to 2019? Perhaps one of the most eye-opening statements we heard at this week’s American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ annual Not-for-Profit Conference at National Harbor, Md., occurred…

By Jerry Ashworth | Also posted in Grants Management, OMB Circulars and Regulations, Single Audits | Tagged AICPA, Compliance Supplement, single audit | Comments (0)

Time Again for the AICPA Not-for-Profit Conference

June 13, 2018 – 7:39 am

As we approach the beginning of summer, we look forward not only to the warming temperatures, but also to getting out and meeting folks in the grants and audit community at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ annual Not-for-Profit…

By Jerry Ashworth | Also posted in Nonprofits, Single Audits | Tagged AICPA, Not-for-Profit Conference | Comments (0)

Sneak Preview: FDP Repository Pilot Improved IHE Data Sharing

May 24, 2018 – 12:44 pm

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) The Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) recently touted the benefits of an 18-month pilot program using an online repository of institutional data to enable institutions of higher…

By Jerry Ashworth | Also posted in Grants Management | Tagged data repository, data sharing, FDP, pilot | Comments (0)

COGR Letter to OMB Seeks Amendment to Payment Provision

November 1, 2017 – 6:50 am

The 2017 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Compliance Supplement has been available for a couple of months now, but one group now is strongly urging OMB to make a change to it. For that matter, it also want to…

By Jerry Ashworth | Also posted in Grants Management | Tagged COGR, Compliance Supplement, OMB, uniform guidance | Comments (0)

Research Organizations Blast DOE’s Onerous Award Requirements

July 26, 2017 – 7:48 am

Several organizations representing research universities expressed frustration with the Department of Energy’s (DOE) onerous requirements placed on federal awards to research institutions. Earlier this month, the Association of American Universities, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the Council on…

By Jerry Ashworth | Also posted in Grants Management | Tagged burdensome requirements, COGR, Department of Energy, DOE | Comments (0)

Sneak Preview: Auditors Making Internal Control Testing Errors

July 20, 2017 – 1:43 pm

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Single Audit Information Service.) Even though audit industry standards and provisions in the Office of Management and Budget’s uniform guidance require firms conducting single audits to perform procedures to obtain…

By Jerry Ashworth | Also posted in Single Audits | Tagged AICPA, internal controls | Comments (0)

AICPA, CIMA Launch Global Association as Nonprofit Conference Starts

June 21, 2017 – 8:48 am

Some organizational acronyms pretty much don’t need too much thought. In the food industry, most of us are familiar with IHOP and KFC. In the federal government, you typically don’t have to tell someone the full name of agencies such…

By Jerry Ashworth | Also posted in Nonprofits, Single Audits | Tagged AICPA, CIMA, Not-for-Profit Conference | Comments (0)

Sneak Preview: Associations Applaud Micro-Purchase Legislation

January 6, 2017 – 9:09 am

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) A provision in a bill passed by Congress that would raise the current micro-purchase procurement threshold for research programs and entities could help relieve administrative burdens…

By Jerry Ashworth | Also posted in Congress, Grants Management | Tagged AIRI, COGR, Congress, micro-purchase | Comments (0)

COGR Requests More Time To Comply with NIH Good Clinical Practice Policy

October 10, 2016 – 10:49 am

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently issued its Policy on Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Training for NIH Awardees Involved in NIH-funded Clinical Trials, but many research universities fear that the implementation date of the policy — Jan. 1, 2017…

By Jerry Ashworth | Also posted in Grants Management | Tagged COGR, FDA, good clinical practice policy, NIH | Comments (1)

Coming Up! A Revised FAQ and Several Important Grants Events

September 6, 2016 – 10:49 pm

Now that Labor Day has come and gone and many of us are back from our summer vacations, we can now look forward to September and ask the question, “What’s coming up in the near future for the grants community?”…