IN PERSON - Grants Part 4: Administration of Grants in CUFS

PrerequisitesNew

This is a classroom version of the Grants 4 course held at Greenwich House - All delegates will need to bring a laptop (docking stations, monitors, external keyboard and mice will be available in the room)

Please note - there is no parking available at Greenwich House. The Madingley Park and Ride is a 15-minute walk and the Universal Bus stops on Madingley Road.

Tea and coffee will be provided during the course, lunch is not provided. There is a café at Greenwich House where you can purchase lunch. You are also welcome to bring lunch with you. You can eat your own food in the café where there are also some microwaves available for your use. We can make fridge space available if required.

This course looks at the tasks required at month end to manage your grants and at transactions that need to be completed using a variety of tools in CUFS. It also looks at preparing grants for closing.

Departmental Grant Administrator staff involved with clearing the suspense account and moving other expenditure via journals or the accounts payable module.

Please ensure you complete at least one week prior to the course starting.

Your booking will remain 'provisional' until the following prerequisites have been completed;

• Grants Part 1: Getting Started in Research Grants online course https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/fin/course/fin-grants1

• Grants Part 3: Viewing Grants in CUFS Virtual course https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/fin/course/fin-virt-grants3

We will check your training history for completions, so there is no reason to let us know if you’ve already passed.

Number of sessions: 1

• Review the department’s suspense account and clear any transactions.
• Review the Exception Report
• Process grants journals and AP grant amendments
• Establish where to look and how to correct funds check failures.
• Grants Closing

To process day to day and month end transactions correctly within the Grants module

Classroom session with system demos and interactive exercises.

Full day session

• Grants Part 1: Getting Started in Research Grants
• IN PERSON - Grants Part 2: Grant reports in Cognos
• Virtual - Grants Part 3: Viewing Grants in CUFS