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Post-Award Management and Reporting Flashcards

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  1. A federal grantee is required to report on outputs and outcomes. What is the key difference between these two measures?

    Answer: Outputs are direct products of activities; outcomes are the changes or benefits resulting from those activities

    Outputs are the direct, countable products of program activities (e.g., number of people trained), while outcomes are the changes in knowledge, behavior, or conditions those activities produce.

  2. What does the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) require of prime grant recipients?

    Answer: Reporting of subawards over $30,000 in USASpending.gov

    FFATA requires prime awardees to report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more to the FSRS (FFATA Sub-award Reporting System), which feeds into USASpending.gov.

  3. Which of the following costs must be treated as a direct cost and cannot be included in an indirect cost pool?

    Answer: Salaries of project staff working exclusively on the grant

    Salaries of staff who work exclusively on a specific grant must be charged as direct costs, not pooled as indirect costs.

  4. A grantee receives a 'disallowed cost' determination from the federal agency after a monitoring visit. What is the grantee's recourse?

    Answer: File an appeal through the agency's dispute resolution process

    Grantees have the right to appeal disallowed cost determinations through the federal agency's administrative appeal process before costs become a final debt.

  5. Under Uniform Guidance, when is a grantee required to report property purchased with federal funds to the federal agency upon project closeout?

    Answer: When the fair market value of federally-owned equipment exceeds $5,000 per item

    At closeout, grantees must submit an inventory of equipment with a fair market value exceeding $5,000 per item to the federal agency for disposition instructions.

  6. What is the purpose of the SF-425 (Federal Financial Report) in grant management?

    Answer: To report on cumulative federal cash received, disbursed, and obligated under a grant award

    The SF-425 is the standard form used to report on the financial status of a federal grant, including cash received, expenditures, and unliquidated obligations.

  7. A grantee's final performance report is due 90 days after the end of the project period. The project ended March 31. When is the report due?

    Answer: June 30

    90 days after March 31 is June 29, but most agencies interpret '90 days' as the last day of the 90th day, which falls on June 30 for a March 31 end date.