Article Intended For
Penn State research administration faculty and staff
Introduction
Authorized Organizational Representative (AOR) Personnel Significant Financial Interest (SFI) Report.
Applicable for all colleges and units.
Named Personnel SFI Report shown for Federal sponsor/prime sponsor Internal Approval Forms (IAF).
Article Body
New functionality added to the IAF to provide Submitting Unit AORs greater visibility into faculty members’ COINS disclosures.
In order to protect faculty privacy, dollar amounts or other such information will not be disclosed and no COINS information will be on the IAF PDF version. When an AOR is providing their final approval signature on an IAF, they will be provided some very general information about the disclosures their faculty members have made in COINS.
It will remain the responsibility of the investigator to ensure that their Other Support/Current & Pending Support Forms are accurate and complete.
This new visibility should facilitate conversations when something doesn’t appear to have been disclosed that perhaps should have been.
The IAF Summary tab processing notes section and the IAF Summary PDF will show one of the following notes regarding the Personnel SFI Report:
- AOR SFI review completed (will show once AOR has acknowledged review of the SFI report)
- SFI review not applicable to sponsor type (will show when the sponsor/prime sponsor is NOT Federal)
- AOR SFI review not applicable as individuals on Personnel tab do not indicate SFI (will show when there is no report for review)
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When “Submit to OSP”/”Submit to ORA” is clicked the SFI report will display if any of the named personnel have COINS data disclosed. Once “Yes” is selected the report page will close and the data can no longer be accessed. Clicking “Cancel” will direct AOR back to IAF Approvals tab. SFI report must be acknowledged before proceeding to final submission.
If all Personnel have no SFI, then no report will show. AOR will be directed to assurance statements page.
Only three areas (Compensation, Equity Interests, Reimbursed or Sponsored Travel) of SFI is being shared. If “Yes SFI” is shown on the report with no additional information that is due to the SFI not being one of the three areas.