Measure twice, cut once: How do institutions help provide financial support during application development to help alleviate common points of frustration after the funding is awarded?

This session will discuss some common areas of frustration noted during post award management, compliance and reporting because of budgets that were submitted to funding agencies. We will look at what those common areas are, and what institutions are doing to help streamline the budget development aspects of pre-award with the post-award financial management, compliance and reporting functions. Focus will be placed on multi-institutional and leveraged (cash and in-kind) funding awards, managing awards which include ineligible expenses in the budget, and the level of involvement the post-award office has with the budget development functions.