F timeliness of information F Understandable reports. At present all indirect costs on an award are encumbered. R allow yearly tracking of multiple year grants which are now lumped into one budget. R Change whole FIN and PAS systems, so you don't have to go from one form to another and go to bottom of page and find right number to put in to do a transaction. Make forms easier to maneuver around.
R Have the items with leftover encumbrances liquidated at a faster rate.
R Make the BAR and BSR easy to understand R More rapid response of charges being reported in the system. There is no way to track it back to the actual requisition on line. Recently, a foreign vendor was paid twice on one of the projects I monitor because it wasn't clear that payment had already been made. R Train research personnel to use the on-line info about their budgets. Help the researchers develop custom formats to project budget balances.