Your online approval indicates acceptance of the information in the Statement of Account and indicates that, to the best of your knowledge, all expenditures incurred are acceptable as per the Tri-Council Use of Grants guidelines and as per your program’s policies.
When you save your online approval of an SoA, the record is immediately available for the Business Officer to approve, and when the Business Officer approves the SoA, the record is immediately submitted as complete.
Your online approval is equivalent to your signing the form and forwarding it to your institution’s Business Officer.