Division of Financial Services
Financial Information Services
The following are common acronyms used in association with the Kuali Financial System (KFS).
| Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|
| A2 | A21: Balance Type (Labor Ledger only) |
| AC | Actuals: Balance Type (Balance Sheet) |
| ACH | Automated Clearing House |
| ACM | Contract Manager Assignment (KFS e-doc) |
| AD | Advance Deposit (KFS e-doc) |
| AP | Accounts Payable |
| APO | Automatic Purchase Order |
| APPS | Automated Procurement and Payment System (Legacy Purchasing system) |
| AR | Accounts Receivable (KFS module) |
| AV | Auxiliary Voucher (KFS e-doc) |
| AVAD | Auxiliary Voucher, Document Type: Adjustment |
| AVAE | Auxiliary Voucher, Document Type: Accrual |
| AVRC | Auxiliary Voucher, Document Type: Recode |
| AWRD | Award (KFS e-doc) |
| BB | Adjusted Base Budget: Balance Type |
| BSC | Business Service Center |
| BT | Benefit Expense Transfer (KFS e-doc) |
| C&G | Contracts and Grants (KFS module) |
| CA | Capital Assets (KFS module) |
| CAB | Capital Asset Builder (part of the KFS Capital Assets module) |
| CAM | Capital Asset Management (part of the KFS Capital Assets module) |
| CB | Current Budget (Balance Type) |
| CCR | Credit Card Receipt (KFS e-doc) |
| CE | Cost Share Encumbrance (Balance Type) |
| CFDA | Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance |
| CM | Credit Memo |
| COA | Chart of Accounts (KFS module) |
| CPBS | Cornell Planning and Budgeting System |
| CSF | Calculated Salary Foundation |
| DI | Distribution of Income and Expense (KFS e-doc) |
| DUO | Department use only |
| DV | Disbursement Voucher (KFS e-doc) |
| EC | Effort Certification (KFS module) |
| EFT | Electronic Fund Transfer |
| EX | External Encumbrance (Balance Type) |
| EZRA | Easy Research Administration |
| FASB | Financial Account Standards Board |
| FFE | Funds Functioning as Endowment |
| FII | Financial Information Inventory |
| FIR | Financial Information Requirements |
| FO | Fiscal officer |
| FP | Financial Processing (KFS module) |
| FRC | Financial Reporting Code |
| FROG | Financial Reporting Owner’s Group |
| FSSM | Financial System Simple Maintenance |
| FTE | Full-time equivalent |
| FY | Fiscal year |
| GL | General Ledger |
| GLT | General Ledger Transfer (KFS e-doc) |
| GLCP | General Ledger Correction Process |
| HRMS | Human Resources Management System |
| IB | Internal Billing (KFS e-doc) |
| ICA | Indirect Cost Adjustment |
| ICR | Indirect Cost Recovery |
| ID&R | Information Delivery and Reporting |
| IE | Internal Encumbrance (Balance Type) |
| JV | Journal Voucher (KFS e-doc) |
| KEM | Kuali Endowment Management (KFS Module) |
| KEN | Kuali Enterprise Notification |
| KEW | Kuali Enterprise Workflow |
| KFS | Kuali Financial System |
| KFSM | Kuali Financial System Maintenance |
| KFST | Kuali Financial System Transactional |
| KIM | Kuali Identity Management |
| KNS | Kuali Nervous System |
| LBF | Labor Year-End Balance Forward |
| LD | Labor Distribution (KFS module) |
| LLCP | Labor Ledger Correction Process (KFS e-doc) |
| LLJV | Labor Journal Voucher (KFS e-doc) |
| LOC | Letter of credit |
| NRA | Nonresident alien |
| OAS | Oracle Analytics Server (Oracle Analytics) |
| OOTB | Out of the box |
| PCDO | Procurement Card, PCard (KFS e-doc) |
| PD | Project director |
| PDP | Pre-Disbursement Processor |
| PE | Pre-Encumbrance (KFS e-doc; and, Balance Type) |
| PI | Principal investigator |
| PO | Purchase Order (KFS e-doc) |
| PPI | Pre-production instance |
| PREQ | Payment Request (KFS e-doc) |
| PRPL | Proposal (KFS e-doc) |
| PS | PeopleSoft, P-Soft |
| PURAP | Purchasing and Accounts Payable (KFS module) |
| PVEN | Vendor Maintenance (KFS e-doc) |
| QA | Quality assurance |
| RCV/RCVL | Receiving/Line Item Receiving (KFS e-doc) |
| SB | Service Billing (KFS e-doc) |
| SFS | Sponsored Financial Services |
| SIG | Special Interest Group |
| SME | Subject-matter expert |
| SOP | Standard Operating Procedure |
| ST | Salary Expense Transfer (KFS e-doc) |
| TE | True endowment |
| TF | Transfer of Funds (KFS e-doc) |
| YE | Year end |
| YEBT | Year End Benefit Expense Transfer (KFS e-doc) |
