What counts as an allowable cost on a federal award and what a program officer will disallow later

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A single audit finding follows a university's finance office for three years Program income earned from a funded project comes with its own rules about where it can go A subaward carries the funder's terms to a partner university while the lead institution keeps the risk Effort reporting asks a professor to certify the percentage of a month they can barely remember Cost transfers after the fact are the accounting move auditors look for first Closing out a grant means a final technical report and a final invoice that rarely agree Advance payment by drawdown means the institution holds cash it has not earned yet Equipment bought on a grant stays with the institution and not with the professor who leaves When the funder's reporting calendar and the university's fiscal year close a month apart Multiple principal investigators on one award turn every budget decision into a negotiation

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