The Office of Grants and Contracts Accounting, in collaboration with financial representative in the campus units, is responsible for the financial close-out of sponsored awards in the Institute's accounting records for both external sponsored awards and restricted gift allocations funded by the Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Steps taken to complete the financial close-out process are as follows:

1. Personnel in the Office of Grants and Contracts Accounting may review expenditures and obligations allocated to sponsored awards period of performance. The review may include, but is not limited to, review of transactions to ensure expenditures are within sponsor guidelines established in the award document and in compliance with applicable laws and institutional policies, including the Federal Government’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements (2 CFR 200).
2. G&C personnel responsible for award close-out will work collaboratively with the campus unit financially responsible for the prime award. Any unrecorded activity must be verified by the G&C personnel as allowable in order to include those costs and/or unliquidated obligations in a financial report or final billing to the sponsor.
3. In accordance with 2 CFR 200.344, the non-Federal entity must submit, no later than 120 calendar days after the end date of the period of performance, all financial, performance, and other reports as required by the terms and conditions of the Federal award. This deadline may be extended based on requirements for specific sponsors or contract terms and conditions that indicate a due date other than 120 days after the performance end date.
4. Grants and Contracts Accounting personnel are responsible for monitoring awards which have been financially closed with the sponsor but have outstanding action required by campus units. Until all internal adjustments are complete, the sponsored award will not be inactivated in the accounting records.
5. At the time final payment from the sponsor is received and all internal actions have been processed (i.e., transfer of overrun costs to a discretionary funding source) in the accounting records, the Office of Grants and Contracts Accounting inactivates the award in the Institute's accounting records.

Fixed-price Sponsored Projects
Fixed-price sponsored awards will be closed in same manner as standard cost-reimbursable awards. In accordance with 200.201 (b)(3) of the OMB Uniform Requirements (2 CFR 200), written certification that the project or activity was completed or the level of effort expended must be obtained. If the required level of effort or activity was not carried out, the amount of the award must be adjusted.

The PI Fixed Price Close-out Certification must be completed and submitted to Grants & Contracts Accounting for review. After certification, immaterial residual balances (if any) remaining on fixed price awards will be transferred to a departmental GTRC allocation, net of applicable F&A expenses, to be managed by the Chair/Director of the department.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please refer to the Grants and Contracts Accounting web site at www.grants.gatech.edu for additional information