This will be especially valuable for multidisciplinary projects. We need to be sure people can sign for just the relevant section. If there is a reasonable consensus on what units want, then this will be easy, but if various chairs and deans want different things, then it will be harder. GC-1 should be reevaluated. Tracking Expenses For industry, you have the complexity of managing revenues as well as expenditures.
Investigators are under-informed about revenues.
The current system is looking back instead of forward. It would be nice to be able to download information and easily format it yourself to meet your needs. Sometimes investigators need to integrate resources for several projects to decide how to cover expenses of an entire research group. This group's recommendation is to have revenue and expense data available for investigators to use in any way they want. We now have thousands of shadow systems on campus, with lots of duplication.