Background
Building upon its work on the Uniform Budget Elements, which was
submitted to the federal grants.gov project on March 31, 2004,
the Technical Advisory Group of the Uniform Guidelines Coalition
developed a complete set of data elements and definitions for
use in grant budgeting and financial reporting. The TAG has added
funding source line items to the expense line items developed
earlier. In addition this ED proposes columns for programs, functions
and activities and columns for funding sources and for future
periods.
The TAG was
very interested in obtaining feedback about these proposals from
the grants community at all levels, from the federal government
and state governments and foundations to local government subrecipients
and not-for-profit organizations that may receive many or only
one or two grants. The 60-day comment period ended on September
30, 2004. The revised ED will be issued as Version 1 for beta
testing.
Exposure
Draft, Uniform Data Elements and Definitions for Grant Budgeting
and Financial Reprting
On
November 10, 2004, the Uniform Guidelines Coalition issued Uniform
Data Elements and Definitions for Grant Budgeting and Financial
Reporting, Version 1 (November 2004). This document was crafted
by the Coalition's Technical Advisory Group in consultation with
federal agencies, state governments, not-for-profit organizations
and certified public accountants who work with government grant
recipients.
We invite
all participants in the grants process in the United States to
participate in beta testing of this proposal. Beta testers would
include federal and state grantor agencies, private foundations,
state agency and local government subrecipients, and nongovernmental
recipients and subrecipients. Also, e-grant system designers,
especially, are encouraged to test the data elements and their
definitions.
Uniform
Data Elements and Definitions for Grant Budgeting and Financial
Reporting - Version 1
Questions
may be addressed to Bill
Levis, project manager (240-418-7984), or Pat
O'Connor, NASACT program manager (859-276-1147).
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