Tracking grant subrecipient expenses
There are optional setup steps with which you can track, manage, and
report subrecipient expenses.
- Identify sub-recipient expense accounts or account categories. Best practice recommendation is to track sub-recipient expenditures in unique expense accounts or account categories. With setting up separate accounts or account categories, you can isolate sub-recipient expenditures on the SEFA.
- Project setup: You can track sub-recipient expenditures using a separate posting project under the grant sponsored project. You can setup separate posting projects to track subrecipient expenditures. You can add an alternate structure that only contains the sub-recipient posting projects. The alternate structure can be used for reporting in BI or used in reporting settings definition.
- Project user field: You can add a user field to flag the posting project as sub-recipient and personalize the hierarchy list for easy identification.
- These features are optional Procurement functionality:
- Use PO subcontractor agreements in PO to track sub-recipient POs.
- Use contract management to track sub-recipient contracts including terms and agreement.
- Use the PO header sub-contractor flag to flag sub-recipient POs.
- Leverage the vendor/contract relationship view available in projects for an easier link to contracts and purchase order.
The CSF schedule of federal awards report is a worksheet that can be used to create the SEFA report. It is not intended to be a final report. Use it as a tool to create the SEFA.
Follow these guidelines for the SEFA report and isolate sub-recipient spending:
- If using Accounts to track expenditures, create two reporting settings parameters for SEFA
reporting:
- Total SEFA expenditures. All expenditures accounts are included.
- Sub-recipient expenditures. Only sub-recipient accounts are included.
- If using Account categories to track expenditures, you must create two reporting bases that can be assigned to the two reporting settings that you created.