Glossary of Terms

Key Term, Role & Acronym Definitions and Synonyms

Overview

This glossary is a compilation of the business terminology relevant to KFS. It also includes any technical terminology that users of the system must understand and some general research administration terminology.

Disclaimer: The maintainers of this archive are not necessarily the authors or maintainers of the individual term or acronym definitions appearing in this glossary. To correct or contribute to this document, send an e-mail to kfsglossary@kuali.org. Contributions of others may be copyright of those individuals. You may copy and distribute this document in any form provided you acknowledge this source. Exclusion of a term does not necessarily mean it is not acceptable.

Purpose

The purpose of the KFS Glossary is to foster common understanding of terminology between the users and developers of the system. Terms are listed alphabetically by term, acronym or abbreviation, not by meaning.

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(Asset) Create Date

Accommodation Type

Account Delegate

Account Manager

Account Summary

Account Supervisor

Accounting Period

Accounts Payable

Accounts Payable Approved Date

Accounts Payable Review

Accounts Receivable

Accumulated Depreciation

Accumulated Payments

Acquisition Type

Action List Type

Action Request Hierarchy

Action Requested

Activation Type

Active Indicator

Ad Hoc Recipients

Address Type for a Vendor

Adjustment Type

Advance Deposit

Aged Customer Listing

Application Constants

Appointment Type

Asset Acquisition Type

Asset Condition

Asset In-service Date

Asset Maintenance

Asset Net Book Value

Asset Representative

Asset Retirement

Asset Transfer Payment Cd

Author Universal ID

Automatic Purchase Order

Auxiliary Voucher

Bank Maintenance

Bar Code Inventory

Base Rule Attribute

Basic Accounting Category

Billing Address

Billing Frequency

Billing Organization

Blanket Approval

Blanket Approve

Blanket Approve Role

Budget Adjustment

Budget Aggregation Table

Budget Recording Level Table

Building Room Number

Building Sub Room Number

CAB Pending Transactions

Calculated Salary Foundation

Campus Parameter

Campus Plant Fund Account Number

Capital Asset Management (CAM)

Capital Asset Moving Code

Capital Asset Number

Capital Asset Transaction Type

CAS - Central Authentication Service

Cash equivalents

Cash Management Document

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Chart of Accounts

Claim on Cash Balance

Collection Activity

Collection Event

Comma-Separated Value

Community Source

Component Number

Contact Type for a Vendor

Content Routing

Continuation Account

Contract Manager

Contracts & Grants Billing

Contracts & Grants Collection Activity

Contracts & Grants Invoice

Contracts & Grants LOC Review

Contracts and Grants

Co-Project Director

Corporate Card Application

Cost Reimbursable

Country Restricted Indicator

Create Division for a Vendor

Creative Commons

Credit Card Receipt

Credit Card Type

Credit Card Vendor

Credit Memo FYI

Credit Memo Status

Credit Memo Type

Credit Processed

CTS Card Application

Current Account Balances

Customer Credit Memo

Customer Invoice

Customer Invoice Item Code

Customer Invoice Write Off

Customer Profile Maintenance

Decision Support

Delegate action list

Delivery Campus

Delivery Instructions

Delivery Required Date Reason

Depreciable Life

Depreciation Date

Disbursement Range Maintenance

Disbursement Voucher

Distribute to Items

Distribution Code

Distribution of Income and Expense

Doc Handler URL

Document Number

Document Operation

Document Search

Document Status

Document Type Hierarchy

Document Type Label

Document Type Name

Document Type Policy

Documentation Location

Dunning Campaign

Dunning Letter Template

Dunning Letters

Embedded Client

Employee Status

Encumbrance Update Code

Enterprise Feed

Entertainment Reimbursement

Entity Attribute

Equipment Loan/Return

Error Correction

Exception Messaging

Exception Routing

Exclude from Invoicing

Exclude Sub-Accounts

Extended Attributes

Extension Rule Attribute

External Encumbrance

External System

Fabrication Request

Federal Contribution

Federal Function

Federal Funded Code

Federal Pass Through

Final Billed Indicator

Final Reimbursement

Financial Reporting Codes

Financial Series ID

Financial System Function Control Code

Fiscal Year Function Control

Flexible Document

Flexible Offset

Flexible Route Management

Flexible Route Module

Format Check/ACH

Format Summary Review

Function Control Code

Functional Council

General Error Correction

General Ledger Correction Process

Generate Dunning Letters

Global Account Delegate

Global Account Delegate Model

Global Object Code

Global Sub-object Code

Graduate Assistant

Grant Description

Group Attribute

Hierarchical Tree Structure

Higher Education Function

Historical Balances

ICR Entry Number

ICR Poster Error Transactions

ICR Poster Valid Transactions

ICR Transactions

Imported Expenses

Include Zeroed Out Encumbrances

Income Stream Account

Indirect Cost Adjustment

Indirect Cost Recovery (ICR)

Indirect Cost Recovery (ICR) Automated Entry

Indirect Cost Recovery (ICR) Exclusion by Account

Indirect Cost Recovery (ICR) Exclusion by Type

Indirect Cost Recovery (ICR) Type Code

Indirect Cost Revenue

Instrument Type

Internal Billing

Internal Encumbrance

Invoicing Option

Item Type In Credit Memo

Journal Voucher

KCB - Kuali Communications Broker

KEN - Kuali Enterprise Notification

KEW - Kuali Enterprise Workflow

Kuali Base System Financial Policies

Kuali Coeus (KC)

Kuali Commercial Affiliates (KCA)

Kuali Enterprise Notification (KEN)

Kuali Enterprise Workflow (KEW)

Kuali Financial System (KFS)

Kuali Foundation

Kuali Identity Management

Kuali Identity Management (KIM)

Kuali Nervous System

Kuali Nervous System (KNS)

Kuali Partners Program

Kuali Service Bus

Kuali Technical Council

Labor Distribution

Labor Ledger Correction Process Document

Labor Ledger Journal Voucher

Land Parcel Number

Last Inventory Date

Last Modified Date

Ledger Document Type

Ledger Entries File

Letter of Credit

Letter of Credit Fund

Letter of Credit Fund Group

Maintenance Document

Mandatory Transfer Elimination Code

Manufacturer Name

Merged Asset Number

Message of The Day

Method of Invoice Transmission

Method of PO Transmission

Milestone Schedule

Moving and Relocation Reimbursement

National Stock Number

Negative Payment Request Approval Limit

Non Resident Alien

Non Resident Alien Tax Percent

Non-Check Disbursement

Nonpersonnel Category

Nonpersonnel Object Code

Nonpersonnel Sub-Category

Non-Reimbursable

Notification Content

Notification Message

Object Consolidation

Object Sub-Type

Offset Definition

Open for Reimbursement

Optimistic Locking

Optional Extension Attribute

Optional Rule Extension Attribute

Organization Asset Type

Organization Code

Organization Inventory Name

Organization Owner

Organization Parameter

Organization Plant Account Number

Organization Reversion

Organization Reversion Category

Organization Tag

Organization Text

Organization Type

Origin Entry Group

Original Asset Number

Origination Code

Ownership Category for a Vendor

Ownership Type for a Vendor

Parameter Component Code

Parameter Description

Parameter Type Code

Parameter Value

Parent Document Type

Payment Application

Payment Medium Type

Payment Reason Code

Payment Request

Payment Request Auto Approve Exclusions

Payment Request Status

PDP Extract Date

Per Diem Expenses

Person Identifier

Pessimistic locking

Phone Type for a Vendor

Plant Indebtedness

PO Total Cannot Exceed

Police Case Number

Post-Award Close

Posted Date/Time Stamp

Poster and Scrubber

Pre-Asset Tagging

Pre-Defined Queries

Predetermined Billing Schedule

Pre-Disbursement Processor

Pre-Encumbrance

Pre-Encumbrance Document

Primary Delegate

Primary Delegation

Primary Destination

Principal Investigator

Processing Organization

Procurement Card Default

Procurement Card Document

Project Director

Proposal Purpose

Proposal Status

Proposal/Award Type

Purchase Order Amendment

Purchase Order Close

Purchase Order Contract Language

Purchase Order Cost Source

Purchase Order Payment Hold

Purchase Order Quote Status

Purchase Order Remove Hold

Purchase Order Reopen

Purchase Order Retransmit

Purchase Order Status

Purchase Order Transmission Method

Purchase Order Vendor Choice

Purchase Order Void

Purchasing/Accounts Payable

Receipt Required

Recurring Payment Frequency

Recurring Payment Type

Reference Document

Replacement Amount

Required Extension Attribute

Required Rule Extension Attribute

Requisition Source

Requisition Status

Research Risk Type

Responsibility Center

Responsibility Id

Responsible Party

Responsible Party Attribute

Restricted Status

Retirement Date

Retirement Document Number

Retirement Reason

Retirement Reason Code

Route Header Id

Routing Priority

Rule QuickLinks

Searchable Attributes

Secondary Delegate

Separate An Asset

Separation of Duties

Service Billing

Service Billing Control

Service Registry

Setup Account Distribution

Shipping Payment Terms

Shipping Special Condition

Special Condition Routing

Statistics Report

Stipulations & Info

Sub-Account Review

Sub-Fund Group Type

Sub-Object Code

Sufficient Funds

Sufficient Funds Code

SuperUser Approval

SuperUser Document Search

Supervisor Functions

Supplier Diversity

Suspension Category

Tax Income Class Code

Transfer of Funds

Transmit Contracts & Grants Invoices

Travel Agency Audit and Correction

Travel Arranger

Travel Authorization

Travel Expense Type Codes

Travel Mileage Rate

Travel Per Diem

Travel Reimbursement

Unit of Measure

University Budget Office Function

University Date

Vendor Inactive Reason

Vendor Stipulation

View Payment History

View Related Documents

Warranty Number

Web Service Client

Workflow Engine

Workflow QuickLinks

XML RuleAttribute

Year End Documents