Effort Certification and Reporting Technology
Effort Reporting is a complex aspect of sponsored projects administration in an ever-uncertain regulatory environment. Federal regulations provide limited guidance as to how effort reporting should be managed. Consequently, the threat of significant financial penalties looms over those institutions that fail to employ strong policies, systematic processes, and effective technology to maintain consistency with government rules and regulations surrounding effort reporting.
Huron Consulting group partnered with a top research university to develop ecrt. Huron’s ecrt system is a web-based system that is integrated with the institution’s various financial, payroll, and research administrative functions to deliver a solution that can facilitate a compliant approach to effort reporting. Huron’s ecrt will not only help institutions achieve significant improvements in compliance management, but will also reduce the administrative burden and provide better financial information for academic units.
Why ecrt?
- A user friendly look and feel to enhance usability and fit the institution’s desired web presence
- Provides standardization, administrative efficiency, and strengthens compliance
- Essential effort certification, cost sharing management, commitment management, and labor transfer functionality in a single solution at a single price
- Superior technical architecture incorporating roles and rights management, electronic routing, workflow, email, and single sign-on capabilities
- Complete integration with existing source systems
- Standard management reports and an integrated ad-hoc reporting tool
- Project initiation to go-live in 6-8 months
- Post go-live support response within 24 hours
- Involvement in the ecrt Knowledge Community and participation in our annual user group meeting
- Huron’s commitment to our clients and continual product enhancement
Because
ecrt was designed with the end-certifier in mind, the user interface and navigation promotes the completion and return of effort reports which is necessary to mitigate compliance risk.
Huron professionals work with the institution to align policies and procedures with the capabilities of the
ecrt solution. Our implementation looks at processes, addresses configuration and data conversion, testing, and most importantly, Huron works with each institution to develop a workable training approach, recognizing the importance of strong training for all
ecrt users.
To learn more about our effort reporting solution, click here for an ecrt overview demo.