On-Demand Training Videos

Basics
 
Grant Life Cycle

Overview of typical activities that take place at each stage from pre to post award, highlighting how decisions and actions at each phase can culminate into a successfully managed sponsored project.  

Spending Plan

How to read and use - summarizes award notice, official budget in KSU accounting codes, and fund request info.

Ledger Report

FlashLine report for grant expenditures full project period and extraction into excel.

Quick Ledger

How to pull a FlashLine report into an excel file.

Effort
 
Labor Distribution

FlashLine report for personnel charges by KSU fiscal year.

Labor Advanced

Ways to use the labor distribution information to actively manage personnel costs on a sponsored project.

Academic Year Effort

Step by step example of simple academic year effort allocation to a grant.

Summer Salary Basics

Summer Salary basics for tenure track faculty and grants

Roles
 
Roles and Responsibilities

Review of key units involved in grant management processes, their divisional organization and their primary grant related functions.

R&R Sponsored Programs

Roles and Responsibilities series focusing on Sponsored Programs.

Principal Investigator & Home Org.

Roles and Responsibilities series focusing on the principal investigator (PI) and their home organization.

Grants Accounting

Roles and Responsibilities series focusing on Grants Accounting and The Office of Internal Audit.

Costs
 
Direct Costs

An overview of direct costs.

F&A Rate (Indirect Costs)

This presentation is an overview of the Facilities and Administration rate.  It will discuss what it is, how it is determined, applied, and distributed at Kent State University.