Know the Code – Standard 8

Document, code, bill, and collect in accordance with applicable rules and regulations

As a comprehensive research enterprise, UA must coordinate activities to ensure sponsored projects and University activities and operations are billed appropriately and in compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and contractual obligations.

UA Community members are expected to:

• Render services within the scope of applicable federal, state, and professional guidelines and UA policies;
• Document and maintain complete and accurate records of goods and services provided and obtained in accordance with applicable federal and state laws and University policies;
• Accurately code and bill for services based on government standards and UA policies; and
• Accurately and appropriately document, maintain, store, and report records and University information in accordance with federal and state laws and UA policies.

With respect to teaching and research, UA community members are expected to:

• Promote academic freedom, including the freedom to discuss all relevant matters in the classroom and to explore all avenues of scholarship, research, and creative expression;
• Propose, conduct, and report research with integrity and honesty;
• Protect people and humanely treat animals involved in teaching or research;
• Undertake human subjects research only in accordance with approved protocols;
• Learn, follow, and demonstrate accountability for meeting requirements of regulatory bodies, sponsors, and partners;
• Faithfully transmit research findings;
• Protect rights to individual, UA, and third-party intellectual property;
• Ensure originality of one’s work and provide credit for the ideas of others upon which work
  is built;
• Be responsible for the accuracy and fairness of information reported and/or published; and
• Fairly assign authorship credit on the basis of significant contributions.