RRS_Series: Sponsored Research Post-Award Phase: Expense Approvals and Documentation

Activity
II.06. ACADEMICS, INSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH/Research
Series Name
Sponsored Research Post-Award Phase: Expense Approvals and Documentation
Series ID
206-30-410
Description

Document expenses, and approvals for those expenses, charged to sponsored awards.

These records found in all media (paper, digital, or other) may include but are not limited to:

  • all cost-shared expenses;
  • documentation detailing and supporting purchases, payroll, and other financial charges to grant funds (example: receipts);
  • procurement method support documentation;
  • documentation of grant funded or cost-shared travel;
  • cost of education and institutional allowance funds expenditures, documenting federally sponsored programs which award fellowships to both graduate students and postdoctoral scholars;
  • expenditures approvals;
  • related documentation and correspondence, including e-mail.

 

 

Retention and Disposal Instructions

3 years from the date of submission of the final expenditure report or, for Federal awards that are renewed quarterly or annually, from the date of the submission of the quarterly or annual financial report, respectively, as reported to the Federal awarding agency or pass-through entity in the case of a subrecipient, unless otherwise specified by the terms of the agreement, purge. 

Exception: In the event of a subpoena, audit, legal hold, public records or similar state or federal information request, halt until further instructed any scheduled disposal activities, including purging or transferring material to University Archives.