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The Office of Management and Budget's Uniform Grants Guidance provides the basic rules for managing Federal grants and subawards. Noncompliance with the Uniform Guidance (also known as the "OMB Super Circular") can have serious, adverse consequences for grant-funded organizations as well as individual grants management professionals. These important rules have changed. During this webinar, you will learn about the OMB's revisions to the Uniform Guidance.

You will explore the following topics as part of this webinar:

• Timeline of Uniform Grants Guidance revisions;
• Significant changes to the Uniform Guidance;
• Effective dates for Super Circular revisions;
• Changes to related OMB rules for grants and agreements; and,
• Answers to frequently asked questions about the revised Uniform Guidance.

By participating in this webinar, you will learn about the updates to the Uniform Grants Guidance to help you ensure that your grant-funded programs stay in compliance with Federal requirements.

The rules and restrictions placed on grant-funded organizations under the Uniform Grants Guidance (also called the "OMB Super Circular") can be confusing and difficult to apply.  This two-hour webinar will clear up the confusion and explain how to implement the Uniform Guidance's administrative requirements.  You will learn about the major post-award compliance areas for grant-funded organizations.  The webinar will explain these important requirements in detail, so that you can efficiently manage your grant-funded programs and avoid common problems.

Topics that you will learn about during the administrative requirements webinar include:

• Recent changes to administrative requirements;
• Rules for fiscal management systems;
• Internal control requirements for grantees;
• Standards for managing grant-funded property;
• Recordkeeping standards for Federal grants;
• Requirements for closeouts and post-closeout adjustments; and,
• Answers to frequently asked questions about administrative requirements.

By participating, you will learn about these and other important rules for managing Federal grants and subawards.  You will also have the opportunity to ask your individual questions during the two-hour webinar.

What happens when grant-funded entities fail to follow the Uniform Grants Guidance or other requirements?  Funding sources have at their disposal a number of potential remedies (or enforcement actions) under the Uniform Guidance to address noncompliance.  However, grantees and subrecipients facing enforcement actions also have rights.  This webinar will cover both.  After attending, you will have a better understanding of grantor remedies and grantee rights and how the relationship between the two could affect your organization.

Topics that you will learn about during this webinar include:

• Recent changes to funding source remedies;
• Basic types of remedies and enforcement actions;
• Rights of grantees and subrecipients;
• Administrative appeals of enforcement actions;
• Judicial challenges to funding source remedies;
• Application of the Administrative Procedure Act; and,
• Frequently asked questions about enforcement actions.

When you participate in this two-hour webinar, you will learn about potential remedies and enforcement actions under the Uniform Guidance and how to avoid them.  In addition, will have opportunities to ask your individual questions about funding source remedies and grantee rights.

Learn the right way to purchase goods and services with grant funds.  Procurement  is one of the most complex and important areas under the Uniform Grants Guidance (also known as the "OMB Super Circular").  Failure to follow the procurement rules can result in costly disallowances and even loss of grant funding.  Therefore, grantees and subrecipients need to understand these key requirements.  This two-hour webinar will explain the major Uniform Guidance procurement rules while also highlighting changes to the procurement standards.

Topics that will be discussed during the procurement standards webinar include:

• Changes affecting procurement with grant funds;
• Acceptable procurement methods;
• Required and prohibited terms and conditions;
• Permissible types of contracts (procurement instruments);
• Conflict of interest requirements;
• Affirmative action provisions;
• Differences between procurement and subrecipient relationships; and,
• Evaluating and documenting procurement transactions.

During the webinar, you will learn about these and other important requirements to allow you to better manage the procurement process, whether as a direct grantee or a subrecipient.  Not only will you learn about the rules for procurement under the Uniform Grants Guidance, you will also have the opportunity to get answers to your individual purchasing questions as part of the two-hour webinar.

In creating the Uniform Grants Guidance (also known as the "OMB Super Circular"), the Office of Management and Budget sought more consistent treatment of costs while also limiting allowability for certain items.  Although the Super Circular's cost principles reflect these simple goals, the cost principles themselves are far from simple.  Understanding these rules, though, is vital to successfully managing grant awards and avoiding questioned costs.  This two-hour webinar will explain the major concepts and general rules underlying the Super Circular's cost principles and how they affect grant-funded entities.

During the webinar, you will explore the fundamental requirements of the Uniform Guidance's cost principles, including:

• Recent changes to the Uniform Guidance cost principles;
• General cost allowability rules;
• Direct cost basics;
• Indirect cost recovery (including the de minimis indirect cost rate);
• Differences between applicable credits and program income;
• Cost principles and "fixed amount awards";
• Prior approval requirements and exceptions; and,
• Avoiding common mistakes with cost principles.

These are just some of the areas that you will learn about when you participate in this two-hour webinar.  In addition, you will also have the opportunity to ask your own questions about the Uniform Guidance's cost principles.

(Note:  Treatment of selected items of cost under the Uniform Grants Guidance will be covered in a separate, companion webinar.)

"Can we charge that to our grant?" The cost principles in the Uniform Grants Guidance (also known as the "OMB Super Circular") try to answer that question for over fifty specific items, but the answer is not always what you might expect.  Numerous exceptions and prior approval requirements in the Uniform Guidance can create confusion and make clear answers difficult.  Compliance with grants management requirements, though, means getting the answer right every time.  By participating in this two-hour webinar, you will learn how to correctly answer allowability questions for selected items of cost under the cost principles.

Just some of the selected items of cost that you will learn about during this webinar include:

• Compensation and benefits;
• Advertising and public relations;
• Equipment and other capital expenditures;
• Bad debts and improper payments;
• Insurance premiums and losses;
• Legal fees;
• Supplies;
• Lobbying expenses;
• Contingencies and idle capacity;
• Audit costs;
• Consultants and other professional services;
• Conference expenses;
• Rental costs;
• Employ health and welfare costs;
• Travel expenses;
• Entertainment; and,
• Training.

You will learn how to apply the rules for these and close to three dozen other selected items of cost when you take part in this in-depth exploration of the Uniform Guidance's cost principles.  You will also have the opportunity to ask and get answers to your individual cost questions during this two-hour webinar's extended question and answer session.

(Note:  The general cost principles under the Uniform Grants Guidance will be covered in a separate, companion webinar.)