Your New Award
Congratulations on receiving your new award! Here are useful tips to get you started.
- SPFAC’s Accounting Specialist 2 will email your account number (“R number”) to you once our office has a fully executed agreement/contract.
- Once your R account has been activated, you can monitor your new account from ULINK.
- When looking at your account ledger for the first time, confirm that the budget has been entered correctly. Please contact your Post Award Grant Specialist if you notice any discrepancies.
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Take the time to read your award and review the following:
- Start and end dates
- Deadlines for deliverables and reports
- Are there any restrictions, such as travel, budget revisions, or equipment purchases?
- Any other Special Conditions?
- Set up your own expense tracking spreadsheet (i.e. Excel) that you can compare to the ULINK ledgers on a monthly basis.
- Establish a filing system to keep all back up documentation of your transactions (copies of invoices, receipts, travel reimbursements, etc). It will be helpful in the event of an audit.