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Electronic Tracking and Analysis (eTA)

What is the purpose?  

Want the ability to track extramural grant spending in real time or look at future-year budgeting? Need to explore the impact of mid-year changes to your budget caused by events such as a continuing resolution or sequestration? The electronic Tracking and Analysis system (eTA), a comprehensive budget management tool for NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs), allows you to do all this and more.

What are the features?

Gives users the ability to create an IC's complete budget picture for any given fiscal year

Allows IC-specific funding policies, estimates, spending sources (CAN assignments) and "set-asides" to be viewed in the context of commitments and applications, creating a more accurate financial plan prior to actual award

Provides the ability to track dollar amounts and grant counts, once the eRA IMPAC II data has been loaded into eTA by the user

What are the benefits?

The eTA system is a reporting and estimation tool that supports daily budgetary tasks and provides up-to-the-minute access to grant information and budget data.  An eTA user can:

  • Track actual spending in real time and compare actual spending against projected spending
  • Explore how changes to the budget during the current year affect grants that are yet to be paid
  • Model future years' budgets
  • View an at-a-glance dashboard of extramural funding
  • Create customized views of data
  • Compare records in the IMPAC II database and the data loaded into eTA to identify discrepancies
  • Look at the IC-specific portion of co-funded grants
  • Track extramural budget allocations by grant mechanism
  • Reconcile grant data against obligations in the NIH Business System (NBS) (part of an NIH wide financial management system used to verify the availability of funds and perform financial reporting functions) and update the information accordingly during the fiscal year

Who can use eTA?

eTA serves the grants management, financial management, program and IC leadership communities. Some users may have full access while others may have view-only access, depending on their role. Currently, eTA is available only to NIH users.