This policy describes the required documentation and signatures needed for approval of a Faculty/ Staff retreat.

These guidelines describe the request process, the justification for payment, and the method of payment for out of cycle payments.

The Visa Participant Incentive Debit Card Program was designed to provide non-cash incentives for research subjects. This document provides guidelines for requesting, maintaining, replenishing, and closing out a Visa Participant Incentive Debit Card. See the Financial Affairs Website for additional guidelines regarding this policy.

This policy lists the definitions of a cost transfer and the requirements for processing a cost transfer request. See the Financial Affairs Website for additional guidelines regarding this policy.

All UAB property is considered by the State of Alabama to be State property. Therefore, it is rare to transfer ownership of property unless certain conditions require UAB to relinquish the property in question. This policy outlines those conditions and procedures for transferring the ownership of UAB property.

This document describes what petty cash is and contains information on how to request the establishment of a petty cash account. See the Financial Affairs Website for additional guidelines regarding this policy.

Financial Affairs must approve all independent contractors. Application for requesting to be treated as an independent contractor must be made on the form provided by Financial Affairs.

This policy mandates compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards for all UAB merchants in order to securely protect and maintain cardholder data during payment card processing, storage, or transmission.

Current UAB employees should be paid through the UAB payroll system for all services, except those services entitled to independent contractor treatment regardless of the person's UAB employment status.

This policy describes the two types of cost sharing, "mandatory" and "voluntary," their purposes within the Univeristy, and the cost sharing requirements by federal cost accounting regulations.