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Pre-Award
Plan Your Project
Find Funding
Develop Your Budget
Fringe Benefit Calculations
Write Your Proposal
Writing Resources
Submit Your Proposal

Post-Award
Grant Accounts
Contracts
Project Revisions
Effort Reporting
Reports
Information For Recipients

Information for External Grant Recipients

Accounts
See Grant Accounts.

Additional Information
FRS Screen 019 - Account Summary
FRS Screen 023 - All Account Transactions
Training is available for FRS Accounting

Budget Changes
See Project Revisions

Purchasing
It is common for purchases made with external grant funds to be paid through reimbursement. In this instance, ORSP's grant accountant, Letitia Hamilton, invoices the funding agency after purchases are made through the SFA purchasing department using internal funds. In some cases, the funds are transferred to the external grant account before purchasing begins; in this case, normal purchasing procedures apply and the project director is responsible for ensuring the expenditures are appropriate and are in compliance with university purchasing policies.

Additional Information
FRS Purchasing Manual

Travel
Anyone traveling on university business must obtain permission in advance of the trip. A Travel Request must be completed before travel and routed for appropriate signatures. This ensures that funds are encumbered against the appropriate accounts. Upon return from a trip, a travel voucher must be completed in order to receive reimbursement approved in the request. Foreign travel must be approved by the chair of the Board of Regents; travel requests for foreign travel must be submitted to the Provost's office.

Additional Information
Travel Request Form
Texas Hotel Tax Exepmption Certification
Travel Voucher
SFA Travel Office

Student / Graduate Assistants
Graduate Assistants:
Personnel Action Requests (PARs) must be completed for salaried graduate students (student with assistantships) paid from research accounts (Faculty Research Grants and Research Development Program funds).

Student Assistants:
Project directors / account managers should contact Student Employment to complete the necessary paperwork to employ student assistants. The research account from which a student assistant is to be paid should be indicated on the employment card. Payroll will send the student time sheets to the appropriate department for completion every pay period.

Additional Information
Student Employment
Human Resources (Graduate Assistant PAR Processing)

Reports
See Reports for External Funding