The culmination of all the preparation and proposal writing and submission activity is a favorable response from the sponsor. If all goes well, an award is made, negotiations are completed and the award is accepted, reviewed and set-up for expenditures and execution.

Award Review and Set-up
The Award Set-up Process involves entering a variety of data into the University's Financial System to establish budget line items, performance period dates, deliverable requirements and certain terms and conditions as well as other information in the system for tracking and reporting purposes. How awards are set-up depends on whether they are new awards or modifications, and, if modifications, whether they are complex or standard.

Program Expenditures
This section outlines the more common types of Direct Cost Expenditures. The emphasis is on what information is needed to enable the Principal Investigator to properly charge these costs to a sponsored program.

Program Income
Program Income is any income earned by the recipient of a sponsored award that is directly generated by a supported activity, or earned as a result of the award.

Award Administration
There are many management and administrative requirements relating to the University's responsibility for completing the project.

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