When should Effort Reports be certified and the workflow completed?
Prompt review, certification, and correction of an employee’s paid and unpaid (cost sharing) commitment to a project is essential. Each time you certify effort, you do so for a specific period of performance. The time during which you certify effort is called the certification window. Each certification window is opened by ORSPA a month or more after its corresponding period of performance. Each time the certification window is opened, you have 45 days to certify the effort for the corresponding period of performance. Academic employees who are unavailable during the summer to approve their effort statements online when the Spring effort reports are distributed will need to need to review and certify them immediately upon their return in the Fall. In the event that effort reports for pay on sponsored accounts are not certified, the Department Effort Administrator (DEA) will be required to remove the payroll from the sponsored project account. Since the online Effort Reporting system in
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