User Tools

Site Tools


acquisitions_glossary

This is an old revision of the document!


Table of Contents

Acquisitions Glossary

General

  • Alerts – Pop up messages that appear when a line item is received.
  • Blanket Invoice – Allows you to expend money from a fund without the use of a purchase order.
  • Context Org Unit – The org unit that owns the bib record.
  • Distribution Formula – Tells the system how many copies should be distributed to each location.
  • Provider – Vendor

Funds

  • Balance Stop Percentage – Allows you to specify the percentage point at which you are stopped from spending money from a fund.
  • Balance Warning Percentage – Allows you to specify the percentage point at which a warning should display to inform you that a fund is low.
  • Propagate – At the year end close, the fund will be created for the new fiscal year.
  • Rollover – Allows mony remaining in a fund to be available in the next fiscal year.
  • Fund Tag – Used to group funds for reporting purposes.
  • Funding Source – Top level of funds. Monies are allocated to your specific funds from your funding sources.
  • Balance – The balance is calculated by subtracting expenditures (invoiced amounts) and encumbrances from the total allocated to the fund.
  • Total Allocated – This amount is the total amount allocated from Funding Sources.
  • Spent Balance – This balance is calculated by subtracting only the items that have been invoiced from the total allocated to the fund. It does not include encumbrances.
  • Total Debits – The total debits are calculated by adding the cost of items that have been invoiced and encumbrances.
  • Total Spent – The total spent is calculated by adding the cost of items that have been invoiced. It does not include encumbrances.
  • Total Encumbered – The total encumbered is calculated by adding all encumbrances.
  • Encumbrance - Money that has been set aside for a future expenditure. Line items and the blanket order direct charge encumber money when a purchase order is activated.
acquisitions_glossary.1722520339.txt.gz · Last modified: 2024/08/01 07:52 by cmorgan

Donate Powered by PHP Valid HTML5 Valid CSS Driven by DokuWiki