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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
Conference Approval, Planning and Reporting
- 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

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Adjustments to Awards

Incurring of Certain Costs for Which Program Office Approval is Required

You must obtain written prior approval for some costs, as specified in the applicable Title 2 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) section (Parts 215, 220, 225, and/or 230), and as discussed in Chapter 11: Costs Requiring Prior Approval. The following are examples of costs that require a GAN for prior approval:

Compensation for consultant services in excess of $450 per 8-hour day, or $56.25 per hour
Sole source procurements in excess of $100,000
Publication plans
Purchase of Automatic Data Processing, or ADP, equipment and software
Costs incurred prior to the date of the subaward period
Foreign travel