{"id":256,"date":"2018-04-27T08:50:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T12:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/2018-accfo\/?page_id=256"},"modified":"2018-04-27T08:50:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T12:50:45","slug":"how-georgia-tech-managed-a-data-analytics-audit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/2018-accfo\/how-georgia-tech-managed-a-data-analytics-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"How Georgia Tech Managed a Data Analytics Audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This session will provide an overview of Georgia Tech&#8217;s approach to an NSF-OIG audit of incurred costs and the implementation of lessons learned from the experience.\u00a0 The audit reviewed hundreds of thousands of transactions covering a 3-year period using data analytics techniques.\u00a0 Included in the audit were more than 1,000 NSF awards totaling over $200 million in claimed costs.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Presenter\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sandra M. Mason, CRA<br \/>\nSr. Director Grants and Contracts Accounting<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Georgia Institute of Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-257\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/2018-accfo\/files\/2018\/04\/sandra_mason.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>Sandra Mason is the Senior Director of Grants and Contracts Accounting at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u00a0 In this role she is responsible for leadership, strategic planning, and organization direction relating to sponsored project accounting, cost accounting, salary planning and distribution, and financial compliance.\u00a0 Sandy has been with Georgia Tech for over 25 years in a variety of roles within the Office of Grants and Contracts Accounting, the Georgia Tech Foundation, and the Controller\u2019s Office.\u00a0 She provided functional expertise in the design of a fully customized Grants Management system at Georgia Tech and is currently leading the Grants implementation under an enterprise-wide financial system transformation to cloud-based technology. Sandy is a Certified Research Administrator (CRA) and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Western Kentucky University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This session will provide an overview of Georgia Tech&#8217;s approach to an NSF-OIG audit of incurred costs and the implementation of lessons learned from the experience.\u00a0 The audit reviewed hundreds of thousands of transactions covering a 3-year period using data analytics techniques.\u00a0 Included in the audit were more than 1,000 NSF awards totaling over $200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2864,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-256","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/2018-accfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/2018-accfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/2018-accfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/2018-accfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/2018-accfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/2018-accfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/2018-accfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/2018-accfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}