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According to Peters, professors who deal with large amounts of grant money are having particular trouble using ADAPT, although the program was designed with just such professors in mind. Were it to work as planned, the program would allow researchers to calculate instantly how much of their grant money has been spent...
Academic departments, which must use ADAPT to submit and report on income and expenses, are with few exceptions struggling to do even those tasks they could before the system's July 1 launch...
...current phase of ADAPT is intended to provide a wide range of financial services--including invoice submission, travel reembursement and grant management--all on a computerized system uniform across the University...
...overspending them, and that's a problem," Peters said. "They either have to go back to the funding agency and ask for more, or the deptartment has to make up the difference, or ultimately FAS would have to make that up. This is a problem we had hoped ADAPT would cure...
...ADAPT is more complicated than the old system--for instance, routine ledger codes that were once a memorizable 14 digites are now 33. But Peters said that the systems team hopes some problems will be solved as user training and familiarity continue to improve...