The Financial Research Expenditure Dashboard (FRED) is a tool to assist department and grant administrators (DAs) in managing their research dollars.
About FRED
FRED is intended to aid DAs in managing grant expenditures and expanding forecasting capabilities. This is a one-stop dynamic tool built within Microsoft PowerBI that provides:
- Grant expense monitoring across awards
- Projection capabilities within and across sponsor awards
- Alerts to support post award management based on thresholds used by Sponsored Programs
*Only individuals with the “Department Administrator” role in SAP with active grants will have access to data in FRED.
Ensure that you are signed in with your BU email address, not your BMC address
FRED Resources
FRED Training and Best Practices
Learn how to use FRED, from logging in to requesting a budget projection
Ask a Question
If you have questions regarding how to use FRED and monitoring grant expenditures, or if you have a suggested improvement to the tool, please complete this contact form and the appropriate staff person will reach out to help.
More on Monitoring Expenditures
As you award progresses, you can use these resources to track award activity, including subawards, cost transfers, effort, and after-the-fact-review.
Effort reporting is a system that documents and supports individual distribution of activities and associated payroll charges to sponsored agreements, as required by Uniform Guidance. This page refers to important dates and resources.
Cost Transfers and Salary Adjustments
A grant cost transfer is an after-the-fact reallocation of a direct expense, either salary or non-salary, to or from a sponsored project within a 90-calendar day period from the accounting date of a transaction. Ensure you are complying with University policies and procedures should you discover a necessary cost transfer or adjustment.
Questions pertaining to specific situations you may encounter as you monitor grant spending may be addressed in our FAQs.