Objective:
Provide faculty and unit-level managers with a simple to use on-line application that allows them to receive up-to-date information on available funds, expenditures, and commitments, for the funds that are under their control. Allow them to assign or delegate access to support staff as appropriate. This application is to include all types of funds (regular operating funds, grants, contracts, gift and endowment funds, start-up funds, royalty funds, etc.)
Scope:
Specific steps include:
- Oversee efforts currently underway to convert FFR to new technology and implement security function to allow administrators to view grants in other schools, assuming it is authorized.
- Ensure the new application handles all fund types, and the basic expense reporting needed for those fund types.
- Develop and implement a plan to make FFR available to the Danforth schools.
- Work with the Planning Workgroup to ensure faculty needs are considered in the modeling and forecasting needs analysis.
- Working with input from both faculty and administrative focus groups, define and prioritize further enhancements for the FFR, considering but not limited to the following list. Ensure that any additional enhancements or revisions to reporting have value to the faculty, or are segregated into an administrative reporting option.
- Address income reporting needs for non-research faculty funds
- Payroll reporting consistent with PARS calculations
- Run-rate calculations and forecasting abilities (working with the Budgeting and Planning workgroup)
- Availability of additional detail for transactions
- Reporting by grant year or fiscal year
- Additional printing options