We reviewed grants management controls at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and School of Nursing – Behavioral Nursing and Health Services.
We recommended Laboratory Medicine establishes processes to ensure federally required Grant and Contract Certification Reports (GCCRs) are reviewed and signed timely, delegation of signature authority forms are completed by each Principal Investigator, and subcontractors are submitting invoices to the University timely. We recommended the School of Nursing develops a system to monitor grant budget fund balances and status, improves authorization and documentation controls over payroll, purchasing, expenditure transfers transactions, and improves monitoring over grant compliance areas such as salary caps and GCCRs.