Business Managers

College and Departmental Business Managers (BMs) support Researchers as they move through the Research and Creative Activity Ecosystem. Business Managers support the Principal Investigator of the sponsored project in multiple ways, including, but not limited to, monitoring project funds, running reports, making equipment purchases, submitting budget adjustments, and completing human resource actions if needed. This page contains tools and resources to support Business Managers in this role.

Business Manager Steps

The business managers can support researchers during each step of the sponsored project life cycle, from proposal preparation and submission to award acceptance and management. Each step of the lifecycle is detailed further on the right.

The sponsored project lifecycle is integral to the Division of Research and Economic Development Research and Creative Activity Ecosystem.

Business Manager Resources

Business Manager Tools

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Operational Reports

The following operational reports are available to Business Managers to support Principal Investigators throughout the sponsored project process. If you have trouble accessing any of these reports please contact rasa@boisestate.edu with Research Administration Systems and Analytics.

Table of Operational Report

Report Title	Report Description
Master Department ID List	This report cross-references among OSP Proposal Numbers, OFC Award Numbers, and OFC Project Numbers. If you have one reference, you can find the others. This information is updated daily.
Budget v. Actuals Report	This drillable report provides budgeted costs versus actual costs for sponsored projects. Important FAQs.
Pending Awards Report	This report shows the number and dollar amount of pending Awards, Award Amendments, Advance Department IDs, and Advance Spending Requests. The “Current Proposal Status” column identifies the status of these pending actions after they have been received by OSP Contracting Services. This information is to be used in conjunction with the Audit Trail feature in Frevvo. The “OSP_CO” status in Frevvo is when OSP Contracting Services receives the action.
F&A Allocation Report	This report identifies, by month, F&A recovery allocations.
Procurement Standards for Sponsored Projects	The information in this report identifies the procurement requirements for specific sponsored projects, and is based on the output data from Frevvo.
Open Advances	This report shows how many Advance Department IDs and Advance Spending Requests are open as of the report run date, as well as how long they have been open.
No-Cost Extension Reports	This report shows how many No-Cost Extensions are pending approval.
Subawards Report	This report provides a list of all active Subawards under University prime awards. This report is updated each Monday.

Finance Resources

Coming Soon.

Using PPM to Manage Projects

Please see the Reasons to Use OFC’s Project Portfolio Management (PPM) web page.

OSP is currently working with OIT and various campus users to identify, test and deploy additional OFC/PPM reporting functionality that simplifies award financial management for college and departmental administrators (e.g., Budget v. Actuals report for all college and department projects). This web page will be updated to reflect new resources as they become available.

Research Administration Development Program (“ReADy”)

Review information about the Research Administration Development Program (“ReADy”)

Business Managers