Access to Financial Information

Access to Financial Information (AFI) is a secure, web-based financial reporting system designed to provide principal investigators, researchers, and administrative staff with easy access to meaningful financial information for their sponsored accounts. The AFI system provides financial reports that are accurate as of the previous day's close of business, and provides an online method of checking budgets, expenditures and balances for all of a PI's sponsored accounts. Using the AFI system, principal investigators and staff may:

1. view a quick summary of a PI's sponsored accounts
2. review up-to-date revenue and expenditure information for a given account, or
3. view an aggregated financial summary for a master account and all accompanying allocations

If you are already familiar with this system, you can log in from this site: https://admmvs.jhu.edu/ibi_html/afi/login.htm.

If you have not used AFI before, the start up instructions differ for principal investigators (PIs), administrators with CUFS access, and administrators without CUFS access. Click on the following web address for instructions based on your category: https://admmvs.jhu.edu/ibi_html/afi/startdoc.htm.

Please note that AFI is being enhanced to include non-sponsored accounts, and when the new version of AFI is released this summer, Netscape 4.7 will not be supported. Please consider using Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher to access AFI, or upgrading your browser to Netscape 7.0 sometime during the next few months.

For more information, check the AFI system FAQ: https://admmvs.jhu.edu/ibi_html/afi/afifaq.htm.

Grant Writing Workshop

The Professional Development Office (PDO) is sponsoring a Grant Writing Workshop on August 14-15, 2003. This intensive, 2-day workshop is designed to assist junior faculty with writing an NIH (or other peer reviewed) proposal. The focus of the workshop is on writing the Research Plan, including the Abstract and Specific Aims; Background and Significance; Preliminary Studies; and Research Design and Methods. In addition, the workshop addresses the following issues: constructing a budget; identifying sources of funding for research proposals; and understanding the NIH system of review.

The workshop will be held in the Mountcastle Auditorium in the Preclinical Teaching Building. For more information about how to register for the workshop or to receive a detailed list of workshop topics, please contact the PDO at (410) 502-2804 or jhmipdo@jhmi.edu . NOTE: This workshop fills quickly. If you are interested in attending, please contact the PDO at the email address/phone listed above as quickly as possible to ensure your place.

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