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Cost Transfer Policy & Guidance
Cash & Fund Balance Transfer Table
Federal guidelines[2] state cost transfers should be made βwithin 90 days,β and cost transfers that are departmentally approved more than 90 days after the end of the month of the original journal entry date require additional documentation to justify our moving the expense onto an award outside of this deadline. In addition, late cost transfers call into question the universityβs oversight of awards. Therefore, cost transfers departmentally approved more than 90 days after the end of the month of the original journal entry date must have a PI statement signed by the PI and attached to the JE that addresses the following: