On-Demand Training Videos

How to Read and Use a Spending Plan (May 2024)

Detailed Walkthrough (Duration 10 min)

How to read and use - summarizes award notice, official budget in KSU accounting codes, and fund request info

How to Pull a Ledger Report (April 2024)

Detailed Walkthrough (Duration 5 min)

FlashLine report for grant expenditures full project period and extraction into excel.

Quick Reference Ledger Report to Excel  (Duration less than 2 min)

How to pull a FlashLine report into an excel file.

How to Pull a Labor Distribution Report (April 2024)

Detailed Walkthrough (Duration 4 min)

FlashLine report for personnel charges by KSU fiscal year.

Labor Distribution: Level 2 - Ways to use the information (August 2024)

Detailed Walkthrough (Duration 9 min)

Ways to use the information to actively manage personnel costs on a sponsored project.

How To Calculate and Apply Academic Year Effort (August 2024)

Detailed Walkthrough (Duration 9 min)

Step by step example of simple academic year effort allocation to a grant.

Facilities and Administration Rate (Indirect Costs) Basics (August 2024)

Detailed Walkthrough (Duration 11 min) 

This presentation is an overview of the Facilities and Administration rate.  It will discuss what it is, how it is determined, applied, and distributed at Kent State University.

Roles and Responsibilities Series (October 2024)

Overview (Duration 3 min)  

Review of key units involved in grant management processes, their divisional organization and their primary grant related functions

R&R Sponsored Programs (Duration 3 min)  

Roles and Responsibilities series focusing on Sponsored Programs

Principal Investigator & Home Organization (Duration 3 min)  

Roles and Responsibilities series focusing on the principal investigator (PI) and their home organization

Grants Accounting & Office of Internal Audit (Duration 5 min)  

Roles and Responsibilities series focusing on Grants Accounting and The Office of Internal Audit