While Congress has its hands full determining what to do with health care concerns and other issues making the headlines, the nation’s governors recently stressed that there is another topic that is just as important and desperately needs attention —…

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) Officials overseeing the Common Data Elements Repository (CDER) Library are asking grant recipient stakeholders to suggest potential common definitions for thousands of data elements within the…

Upon learning about the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) memorandum to disband the Council of Financial Assistance Reform (COFAR) last month, two questions have been on our minds — why did this happen and what are the next steps…

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Single Audit Information Service.) The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) said it would be willing to work with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)…

Practice makes perfect. That expression can apply to many topics ranging from playing the piano to swinging a golf club. A recent sampling project also shows that it can apply to single audits as well.

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) A growing trend by federal awarding agencies toward using administrative agreements and other alternative methods to address recipient responsibility is effecting the overall number of suspensions…

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…

This is why we here at Thompson offer an entire publication dedicated to the pre-award grant application process — to prevent mistakes like this recent one involving a West Virginia university.

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Single Audit Information Service.) The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is developing internal procedures to support more consistent monitoring of states…

In case you missed it, federal agencies are now under orders to streamline and simplify procedures and regulations to reduce administrative burden. To see this in action, take a look at what the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is doing….