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Effort Certification Review

Test your own effort certification export against eight checks drawn from 2 CFR 200.430, the Uniform Guidance standards for documentation of personnel expenses. It runs in your browser, so your file is never uploaded. No sign-up.

What you get

• Who should have certified and who did, with anyone missing counted in full.
• A scorecard of every tested record against the eight checks, with the reason for each mark.
• A full test or a logged sample you can explain to a reviewer.
• A dollar exposure estimate and a printable decision record.

The eight checks

1. Did the certifier date the certification?
2. Does the record say who certified?
3. Does the record say how effort was verified?
4. Does the certified period match the payroll period charged?
5. Does the certification cover all compensated activity?
6. Was it signed within the completion window?
7. Where effort differed from charges, was payroll adjusted?
8. Could the record be produced within a working day?

Who it is for

Research administrators, grants accountants, controllers and internal audit teams at universities, hospitals and research institutes that charge salaries to federal awards.

It reads a CSV export from Workday or any system that can produce the template's columns. A template and fictional demo data are built in.

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