Advance Payments
In special circumstances, advance payments may be made to foreign subcontractors where cash flow prohibits them from performing the research activities prior to payment. Please contact the SPA Post-Award for additional information.
Account Status Report
An official statement regarding budget activity on restricted awards made to PIs and issued by SPA Post-Award. Expenses are accumulated on a grant and/or project year basis, and current month expenses and obligations are shown in detail. The report is distributed approximately five working days after month end.
Account (Set Up and Structure)
The record established to manage and monitor the revenue and expenditures related to a particular restricted project. Various types of accounts can be created, such as sponsored projects, gifts, and service center/sales and service accounts. A PI can expend award funds only after SPA Pre-Award has accepted an award and asked SPA Post-Award to establish an account (this includes pending awards).
A-110
Document issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that sets forth standards for ensuring consistency and uniformity among federal agencies in the administration of grants to and agreements with institutions of higher education, hospitals, and other non-profit organizations.
Pivot
Pivot is a subscription database of more than 25,000 funding opportunities from numerous sponsors across all disciplines. UGA faculty, students, and staff can search the database and create custom email funding alerts based on the criteria provided by the individual user. You can also share funding opportunities with groups, and save and track opportunities.
Pivot also enables researchers to identify potential research partners inside or outside UGA. Successful matches require researchers to update their Pivot profiles so that they accurately reflect research interests.
Academic Credit
A value equivalent to the intellectual contribution of key personnel involved on a sponsored project. Stated as a percentage, each individual making an intellectual contribution to a project as an internal PI or Co-PI can distribute his/her credit among one or more non-center or institute units. Academic credit percentages will total 100% for each given project. The academic credit allocations: (1) are specified in the Credit Information for each GeaR Office of Research eResearch Portal Proposal; (2) are used to determine the award percent credit on investigator funding reports; and (3) also appear in the UGA Faculty Activity Repository (FAR). Center and institute units may not be given academic credit even if they are academic/degree granting. Academic units are not required to have a Budgetary Unit Code to receive academic credit.
Budgetary Unit
Each unit at UGA that may have accounts assigned to it must have a unique three-digit designator, called the Budgetary Unit Code (BUC). BUCs are assigned to units by UGA Accounting. Units with BUCs include colleges, schools, departments, centers, institutes and other administrative offices. When the financial account for the award is created, the Management Unit’s BUC will be utilized as the unit number for the primary account. BUCs are also used to indicate units that share F&A return.