Business Office
The Business Office provides services for faculty and their staff, as well as for the Center's administration office. Services include contract and grants administration, management of clinical trials, department budgets, and oversight of shared resource facilities.
Services
Pre-award grants administration
- Provide salary projections
- Assist in the completion of Agency budget forms
- Interpret Agency guidelines
- Review proposals for completeness, including Agency and UCSD forms
- Internal signature routing of proposals
- Submission to UCSD Office of Contracts & Grants or School of Medicine Dean's Office
Post-award grants administration
- Funds management and monitoring
- Process and approve all expenditures (purchase orders/requisitions, travel, express cards, recharges)
- Provide monthly reports showing year-to-date and projected balances
- Prepare close-out reports for UCSD Office of Post Award and Financial Services (OPAFS)
- Grants management advice (allowable costs, rebudgeting, carryover balances, grant extensions)
- Inactivate and close out contracts and grants
Clinical trials review
- Clinical Trial Service Agreement budgets
- Route Agreements for departmental signatures
- Manage funds and prepare monthly reports showing year-to-date and projected balances
- Prepare annual budgets
Shared resources
- Develop rates for services performed
- Maintain the Shared Resource database
- Provide billing services to all users
- Generate service utilization reports
- Provide business plans
- Manage fund and prepare monthly reports showing year-to-date and projected balances
- Prepare annual budgets
Contacts