FAQ

Our Commitment to Service details how we support your research support needs and also your responsabilities as a budget holder. 

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Congratulations! You have obtained funding. Now you need to open up your research account. 

Email your contract to ResearchContracts@nuigalway.ie and this will start Research Account Set up process.

Tel: 353 91 495382.  Internal extension 5382 
 Email:  researchcontracts nuigalway.ie 
 Rm No: Unit 8, Business & Innovation Centre 

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A PPF (Post Proposal Form) is the form you must complete if you wish to hire someone using a research account. 

Download the form from the Research Accounting/HR Web pages. Enable Macros on your PC .  This form is supported using Windows XP/7 with Excel 03,07,10.  Contact ISS at ext 5777 if you are having any problems in doing so.  See our PPF Instructions Guide on how to complete.

Complete fully, review the Costs Worksheet and the Budget Holder must email to the relevant RAO contact.

Once it has been approved Research Accounts will forward to HR copying the Budget Holder on the email.

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Agresso enables users to access their financial information via the Internet.

The address for the login page is: https://agresso.nuigalway.ie

The login screen requires users to input the following:

•  Login name (your 6 digit staff id number)
• Client (this is always U1)
• Password (you will be assigned a password, which you must not share with any other user)

More information is available here

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Run the Research Project Summary report located in 1.1A Research Proect Details in the Reporting section of Agresso

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For a Research Budget Account , search for your funder’s Research Vs Actual Report under 1.3 Funder Specific Reports. 

If your funder is not listed you may use the General Research vs Actual Expenditure Report located under General Funder Reports

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Run the Research Income Details report located under 1.2B General Reports

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1. Review the expenditure covering the period for this Cost Statement.
2. Ensure no ineligible expenditure as per funder terms and conditions.
3. Review all Outstanding Purchase Orders, email Accounts Payable with PO Number if they need to be removed.
4. Confirm that all supporting documentation, relating to time sheets etc are completed and available for review by the funding agency if requested to do so.
5. Ensure that travel claimed is not for people charged to other awards where there is a financial reporting requirement.
6. Contact the RAO contact and arrange a suitable time to review and finalise the report

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Run the Total Outstanding PO report located under 1.2B General Reports

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To do this, you can use the copy to clipboard button at the top of the Result section.

Once you have copied the information to clipboard, you can then paste this into and Excel Spreadsheet.

Note:  function copies the data exactly as it appears in the results pane, so if you want the low level information to appear in your spreadsheet, you must expand the detail first in the Web application.

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To add a report to the shortcut menu, you must be in the report itself, where you will notice the Add to shortcuts button at the top of the screen.

Click on this button, and that report will be moved to your Welcome Page

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