LRAs assist PIs in planning expenditures and monitoring financials of sponsored projects, while Central Post-Award prepares and submit invoices to sponsors.

A termination notice for each trainee must be submitted immediately upon the termination of his/her support on the award.

Principal Investigators (PIs) work with their Local Research Administrators (LRAs) to initiate all award actions and transactions.

A Plan to Spend (PTS, also known as projections or forecasting) is a projection of how the budgeted award dollars are targeted to be spent on a month-to-month basis, while simultaneously monitoring