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Explanation of the Effort Report

Upper Section of the Effort Report

For Period: The time frame to be certified.
Individual Covered: The individual who whose effort is documented on the report and is responsible for certifying that effort is reported correctly.
Home Labor Department: The main department that the individual’s payroll defaults to.
Employee ID #: The A-number assigned to the individual by the University.
Title: The individual’s position title within the University.

Middle Section of the Effort Report



Sponsored Activities:
Going Left to Right with the columns here is the breakdown of each column:

Actual Effort
Org #: The Organization Number associated to a particular contract that you have charged effort to.
  • To see actual hours to the research contract over the period, move the mouse icon over the actual org# to show Payroll Account Code, Code Description, # of Hours, Cumulative Hours, and Pay Period.
Title: The title of the research contract that you have charged effort to.
Percent IBS: The percentage of your instituational base salary charged to the research contract as a refelction of the percent of effort put towards the award. .
Cost Share: The percentage of your instituational base salary charged to the research contract as a refelction of the percent of effort put towards the Cost Share contract.
Total Effort: Percent of IBS plus Cost Share equaling the total effort put towards this research contract.
Man Hours: The estimated number of man hours put toward the contract based on a 40 hour work week. (For reference only. You are certifying the percentages not man hours.).

Subtotal Sponsored Activities: This is simply a total of each column.
  • Percent of IBS: The total effort actually performed on all research contracts.
  • Cost Share: The total effort preformed on all research cost share accounts.
  • Total Effort: The total amount of effort preformed on all research accounts.
  • Man Hours: The total man hour’s preformed on all research accounts.
Non-Sponsored Activities:
Going Left to Right with the columns here is the breakdown of each column:

Actual Effort
Org #: The Organization Number associated to a particular non-research contract that you have charged effort to.
  • To see actual hours to the non-research contract, move the mouse icon over the actual org# to show Payroll Account Code, Code Description, # of Hours, Cumulative Hours, and Pay Period.
Title: The title of the non-research contract that you have charged effort to.
Percent IBS: The percentage of actual effort that was put towards this non-research contract.
Cost Share: The percentage of actual effort charged to the Cost Share contract.
Total Effort: Percent of IBS plus Cost Share equaling the total effort put towards this non-research contract.
Man Hours: The actual number of man hours put toward the non-research contract.

Subtotal Non-Sponsored Activities: This is simply a total of each column.
  • Percent of IBS: The total effort actually performed on all non-research contracts.
  • Cost Share: The total effort preformed on all non-research cost share accounts.
  • Total Effort: The total amount of effort preformed on all non-research accounts.
  • Man Hours: The total man hour’s preformed on all non-research accounts.
  • Total Effort: Total Effort is the sum of Sponsored Activities plus Non-Sponsored Activities actual effort.

Lower Section of the Effort Report

Total Effort:
"Manhours information are soley for contracts."
  • The man hour columns are for the contracts use and not what is being certified.
"For the purpose of the following certification, the "Total Effort" to which you are certifying is the effort reflected by the pre-printed percentages in the Institutional Base Salary (IBS) and Cost Share column."
  • You are certifying the percentages of your effort in the columns and not manhours.
Certification:
"I certify the salary charged, salary transfers processed and effort certified this period reasonably reflect the work performed in the designated period, and that I have significant technical knowledge and/or I am in a position that provides me with suitable means of verification that the work was performed. I have accounted for all effort put forth in man-hours and/or percent of effort."

When you certify your report you are agreeing to the above statement and taking responsibility to the government for this effort.