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Title Categorysort ascending Code Description
Unleaded & Diesel Fuel Expense 6415 External expenses for Fuel. Use: Fuel for vehicles and equipment. Payment of gas cards (Mobil, Sunoco, Kwik Fill, etc.)
Health Insurance - Other Grad Assist Expense 8640 Payment of the student health insurance premium and health fee for CU graduate assistantships other than GRAs. Normally paid via the Student Financial System (PeopleSoft). Excludes other fees for GAs, fellows, professional and non-degree students. Use: graduate assistantship health insurance premium and fee.
Graduate Assistant (GA) Expense 5515 Salary for Graduate Assistant and Summer Student positions only (job profile code 10418, 11124). Zero fringe rate
Services -Marketing/Advertise FedUnallow Expense 6745 Expenditures for Marketing and Advertising. These services are classified as nonrecoverable according to 2 CFR 200. Use: Marketing and Advertising used to promote events and programs at Cornell. Not to be used for course listing.
Insurance Claims Adjustment Expense Expense 6331 Estimated amount Cornell Health is not going to receive when insurance claims are adjudicated by insurance payer. Use: Student Health insurance claims ONLY.
Transfer Out - to General Reserves Expense 8045 Used in the operating (GNxxxx) account providing funds to a General Reserve (RVGENL) account.
Skilled / Union Min Expense 5355 Salary for short-term, non-benefit eligible skilled trade and other union employees. Min fringe rate -- see KFS Labor Distribution Table Labor Benefits Calculation table for fringe rate %
Depreciation - Bulding Expense 6301 Allowable decrease in value of property or equipment. Use: Use limited to the Division of Financial Affairs.
Capital Acq - Fed-Fund Moveable Expense 3765 DO NOT USE. Used for data conversion from legacy
Academic - Lecturer Expense 5120 Salary for fellow faculty, visiting lecturers and teaching associates (job profile codes 10374, 10513, 10514, 10515, 10516, 10937, 11368). Max fringe rate -- see KFS Labor Distribution Table Labor Benefits Calculation table for fringe rate %
Fees - Vehicle Expense 6150 Expenditures for registration fees of vehicles. Use: Registration Fees for University owned vehicles. (Fleet, CIT, Dining, Facilities, department)
Supplies - Equip L/T Cap Threshold Expense 6561 Equipment purchased that costs less than the capital threshold but is required to be inventoried. (Example: Jet Propulsion Laboratory requires equipment purchased >= $1,000 be inventoried. Use object code 6561 and request that the item be tagged.)
Cost Share - Expense Recovery Expense 9915 Cost Share object code for Expense Recovery. System use only.
Cost of Benefits - Health & Welfare Expense 5904 Used for various health care benefit expenses, such as the university's HSA contribution and payments to health care providers for claims processing, both payroll and manual entries. May be used by units in rare instances for the payment of university share health insurance and related costs.
Capital Lease Equip Interest Expense 6927 Interest expense related to capital equipment leases. Use: Not limited
Fed Unallowable-Public & Donor Relations Expense 6420 Expenditures for public & donor relations and advertising that are classified as unallowable according to OMB A-21. Use: Donations in lieu of flowers, etc.
Tuition & Fees - GRA Expense 8645 Payment of tuition and fees for CU graduate research assistantships. Normally paid via the Student Financial System. Excludes health insurance fee and payments for fellows, professional and non-degree students. Use: GRA tuition.
Extension/Vet Assistant, Grad (EA/VA) Expense 5520 Salary for Graduate Extension/Vet Assistant positions only (job profile code 11034). Zero fringe rate
Travel - Domestic Expense 6750 Expenditures for domestic travel that the university considers to be travel among the fifty states, its possessions, or its territories. Use: For travel funded by a sponsored project, consult the contractual documents for the sponsor's definition of domestic. All fees associated with a trip should be charged to the travel object code.
Capital Acq - NFED-Spon Moveable Expense 3755 DO NOT USE. Used for data conversion from legacy.

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