Budgets

GMAS unavailable starting at 6:00pm on March 18th, 2022 until the start of business on March 21st, 2022 for the March 2022 release.

GMAS will be unavailable beginning at 6PM on Friday March 19th. This outage is to support the upcoming March 2022 release scheduled to be available by the start of business on Monday March 21st. The focus of this release includes enhancements to support the process of tracking whether a project has participant support costs and implementing the research team panels to continuation and supplement requests. Additional enhancements include updates to transaction monitoring, some modifications to the Just-in-time request, as well as bug fixes...

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GMAS Stabilization Release - April 15th

GMAS will be unavailable starting at 7PM on Monday April 15th for a stabilization release. It will be available again no later than 8AM on Tuesday April 16th.

The stabilization release includes the following:

  • Refactoring of segment revision to prevent timeout errors on large projects
  • Default the IDC rate to null instead of 0% on the new budget entry screen for initial and competing renewals
  • Correction of a navigation issue from the edit budget screen to direct to the proposal homepage
  • ...
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Guest Blogger Series - Alison Wellman Smith from HUIT: Q&A

Thank you so much for reading my blogs and for the interest these past weeks!  We have received some great questions as a result.  We thought we’d share the Q&A with everyone – hope this helps!  If you have other questions, please email the Help Desk at ITHelp@harvard.edu.  Your emails will go to the OBI project team.


Lets say you took a break from research admin for a bit and when you came back, CREW was gone and OBI is here.  What are the top reports you would tell a n00b to run?

The top grants dashboards I would...

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Guest Blogger Series - Alison Wellman Smith from HUIT: OBI and Sponsored Budgets

Given the wonderful new process to upload sponsored budget to the General Ledger in GMAS, I wanted to take a second to talk about how OBI works with the GL Sponsored Budgets.  GL Sponsored Budgets can be found in a few different OBI dashboards: Sponsored Accounts, Current Grants Financial, Historical Grants Financial, and Printable Grants Financial dashboards.

The Sponsored Accounts dashboard provides expense, income, and budget information at the subactivity, or 33-digit, level.  There are two budget-related columns in this dashboard: Current GL Sponsored Budget and Budget...

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Submitting budgets to the GL through GMAS

 

Starting on Monday, December 19th, GMAS users will be able to submit GL budgets through GMAS. If you have never submitted a budget to the GL, you’re probably asking yourself, “why should I bother with GL budgets”. Well, here are some great reasons why:

Having a GL budget

  • Assists with the increased requirements from sponsors to report budget to expenditure variances

  • Helps to proactively manage/identify the need for re-budget requests to sponsors

  • Reduces compliance requests of object codes that are...

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