Financial Information Services

Payment Reasons are used to identify the reason for the disbursement in a Disbursement Voucher (DV) and determines any restrictions that might be on the disbursement. Certain payment reasons might restrict the other choices you are able to make on the DV. For example, most payment reasons only allow certain object codes, and some are restricted to certain payee types such as employees or vendors.

There are two different types of payees allowable on a Disbursement Voucher (DV) e-doc: individuals affiliated with Cornell and vendors.

Cornell-Affiliated Individuals

Individuals who exist in the Kuali Identity Management (KIM) tables can be paid from the DV e-doc. These individuals in KIM are affiliated with Cornell as faculty, staff members, students, and alumni and are populated in KIM from Cornell's PeopleSoft systems (HR/Payroll, Student Financials, or Contributor Relations). KIM is updated on a nightly basis.

The Kuali Financial System (KFS) Financial Processing (FP) module is used to process a variety of accounting entries for: