2011 Financial Guide

Chapters:

Payments
- Using the Grant Payment Request System
- Payment Transaction Timeline
- Understanding the Withholding of Funds
- Drawing Only What is Needed
- Managing Interest Earned
- Understanding the Cash Management Improvement Act
  of 1990
- How to Manage Interest Income
Period of Availability of Funds
- Availability of Awards
- Obligation of Funds
- Expenditure of Funds
- Criteria for Award Extension
Matching or Cost Sharing Requirements
- Match Requirements
- Types of Match
- Source and Type of Funds
- Timing of Matching Contributions
- Records for Match
- Waiver of Match
Program Income
- Introduction
- Accounting Processes for Program Income
- Examples of Program Income
- Procedures for Recovery of Costs Incurred
Adjustments to Awards
- Grant Adjustment Notice
- Incurring of Certain Costs for Which Program Office Approval is Required
- Reprogramming of Funds
Costs Requiring Prior Approval
- Introduction
- Responsibility for Prior Approval
- Procedures for Requesting Prior Approval
- Listing of Costs Requiring Prior Approval
Property and Equipment
- Acquisition of Property and Equipment
- Screening
- Loss, Damage, or Theft of Equipment
- Equipment Acquired With Crime Control Act Block/Formula Funds
- Equipment Acquired With Juvenile Justice Act Formula and Victims of Crime Act Assistance (Formula) Funds
- Equipment and Nonexpendable Personal Property Acquired With Discretionary Funds
- Real Property Acquired With Formula Funds
- Real Property Acquired With Discretionary Funds
- Federal Equipment
- Replacement of Property (Equipment and Nonexpendable Personal Property)
- Retention of Property Records
- Supplies
- Copyrights
- Patents, Patent Rights, and Inventions
Procurement under
Awards of Federal Assistance
- Procurement Standards—
  General Guidance
- Construction Requirements
Allowable Costs
- Introduction
- Compensation for Personal Services
- Conferences and Workshops
- Travel
- Project Site
- Printing
- Publication
- Duplication
- Other Allowable Costs
Food and Beverage
- Introduction
- Allowability of Food and Beverage Costs
- Minimization of Costs of Meals and Refreshments
- Reporting Requirements
Indirect Costs
- Introduction
- Federal Indirect Cost Rate—Negotiated Agreements
- No Approved Plan
- Establishment of Indirect Cost Rates
- Indirect Cost Distribution Bases
- Cost Allocation Plans—Central Support Services
- Lobbying Costs and the Indirect Cost Pool
- Approval of Indirect Cost Rates for Subrecipients
Confidential Funds
- Introduction
- Approval Authorities
- Confidential Funds Certification
- Written Procedures
- Informant Files
- Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) Program
- Accounting and Control Procedures
Unallowable Costs
- Introduction
- Unallowable Cost Categories
Subrecipient Monitoring
- Introduction
- Subrecipient Monitoring
- Best Practices
Reporting Requirements
- Introduction
- SF-425 Federal Financial Reports
- Progress/Program Reports
- Reports Required under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
- Government Performance and Results Act
- Reports Required under the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act
Retention and Access Requirements for
Records
- Retention of Records
- Maintenance of Records
- Access to Records
Suspension or
Termination for Convenience
- Provisions of the Grant
- Suspension or Termination of the Grant
- Termination of Grant and Cooperative Agreement Awards by the Award Recipient
Closeout
- First Steps
- Closeout of Discretionary/
  Categorical and Block/Formula Awards
- Refund of Federal Grant Monies and/or Program Income
- Failure to Remit Funds Owed
Audit Requirements
- Audit Threshold
- Audit Objectives
- Audit Reporting Requirements
- Audit Submission Requirements
- Submission of Audit Reports
- Audit Report Confirmation Requests
- Due Dates for Audit Reports
- Audit Compliance
- Resolution of Audit Reports
- Top 10 Audit Findings (Fiscal Year 2009)
- Audit of Subrecipients
- Technical Assistance
- Full-Scope Auditing
- Commercial (For-Profit) Organizations
- Failure to Comply
- Office of Inspector General Regional Offices
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
of 2009
- Background
- Recovery Act Programs Administered by the Office of Justice Programs
- Supplanting Rules within the Recovery Act Programs
- Special Conditions
- Reporting Requirements for the Recovery Act
- Government-Wide Data Reporting Requirements
- Technical Requirements
- Delegation of Reporting Requirements under the Recovery Act
- Key Reporting Time Frames
- Data Quality Requirements
Grant Fraud, Waste,
and Abuse
- Introduction
- Detection of Grant Fraud
- Penalties of Grant Fraud
- Fraud Indicators
- Common Grant Fraud Schemes
- Ways to Reduce the Risk of Fraud
Payment Programs
- Introduction
- Bulletproof Vest Partnership
- State Criminal Alien Assistance Program
- Northern Border Prosecution Initiative and Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative

Reporting Requirements

Reports Required under the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act

The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (referred to as FFATA or The Transparency Act) requires the Office of Management and Budget to maintain a single, searchable website that provides the public with information about how tax dollars are spent and gives them the ability to hold the Federal Government accountable for each spending decision. That site is http://www.usaspending.gov.

Federal direct recipients that award $25,000 or more to subrecipients are required to submit data in the FFATA Subaward Reporting System. Per Title 2 CFR Volume 1, Part 170???Reporting Subaward and Executive Compensation Information [PDF - 192 Kb], Prime Grant Recipients awarded a new Federal grant greater than or equal to $25,000 as of October 1, 2010 are subject to FFATA sub-award reporting requirements as outlined in the OMB guidance issued August 27, 2010. The prime awardee is required to file a FFATA sub-award report through the FFATA Subaward Reporting System (FSRS), https://www.fsrs.gov/, by the end of the month following the month in which the direct recipient awards any sub-grant greater than or equal to $25,000.

The reporting requirements for Federal award recipients of both formula and discretionary grants awarded on or after October 1, 2010 are:

All subaward information must be reported by the Federal recipient.
If the initial subaward is at least $25,000, the award recipient must report the subawards and the names and annual compensation of the subawardee???s five highest paid executives.
If the initial award is below $25,000 but subsequent award modifications result in a total award equal to or over $25,000, the award will be subject to the reporting requirements as of the date the award exceeds $25,000.
If the initial award is equal to or greater than $25,000 but de-obligation of funding causes the total award amount to fall below $25,000, you will continue to be subject to the reporting requirements.

The reporting requirements do NOT apply to the following:

Recovery Act awards
Awards to individuals
Recipients that had a gross income of $300,000 or less in their previous tax year
Classified information

Action Item

Reporting requirements for U.S. Department of Justice awards may change from year to year. Please read your award documents carefully.

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