KRA Budget Development

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KRA Budget Development

• Rhonda Dwyer
• University of Arizona
• Lisa Oliva
• Michigan State University
• Tyler Wilson
• Colorado State University

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Discussion Topics

• KRA Release 1.1
• Navigating from Proposal to Budget
• Budget Highlights
• Budget Functionality
• Testing Budget Functionality

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KRA Release 1.1

• Changes to the User Interface (UI) only
• Focus Personnel Expenses
• Updates to Totals View Personnel Salaries
• Release date October, 2008

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Budget Development Highlights

• Tied to Proposal Development
• Key data elements default values brought forth
  from the proposal section
• Specific right/role for budget creation
• Multiple Users can be working in different
  functional areas
• Budget detail maps to Grants.gov
• Institutional rates (FA, fringe benefits, etc.)
  applied automatically
• Multiple budget versions can be created
• Total cost and period cost limit functionality
• Calculates the total cost of research
• Budget detail flows through to KRA Awards Module

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Navigating from Proposal to Budget
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Budget Summary Tab
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Proposal Rates
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Rates Unit Hierarchy
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FA Rates
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Fringe Benefits, Inflation, etc.
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Project Personnel
Defaulted From KP
Added here
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Expenses Period 1 Overview
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Expenses Personnel
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Expenses Personnel Budget
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Period Cost Limit Exceeded
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Expenses Non-Personnel
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Generate All Periods
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Totals Tab
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Distribution Income Cost Sharing
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Distribution Income Unrecovered FA Project
Income
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Modular Budget
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Budget ActionsPrint Forms Budget Justification
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Budget Actions Sub-award Budget
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Quality Assurance PeriodSystem Testing

• Quality Assurance period officially began on
  April 1, 2008
• Majority of testing efforts focus on the Budget
  portion
• Over 50 scenarios created to test functionality
• Test cases developed
• Authorization
• Approval Workflow
• Budget calculations
• Grants.gov System to System (S2S)
• Performance Testing

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KRA Budget Lab

• Focus is on Budget Development for a proposal. 
• The facilitators will help you prepare a KRA
  budget, and take your questions.
• 215 315 Wednesday in the Marlborough room.

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Questions
Please join us for the Proposal Development
Budget Labs