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Title Categorysort ascending Code Description
Maintenance Prevention - Equipment Expense 6475 Scheduled activities to ensure regulatory compliance, or keep equipment or software operating, or extend the useful life of equipment or software. Preventive maintenance costs should not be capitalized. Use: External providers of preventative maintenance services for equipment, vehicles, owned copiers, etc.
Collection Expense Expense 6335 Expenditures for collection of debts owed on Cornellcard. Use: Use limited to the Division of Financial Affairs.
Capital Acq - Library Books Expense 3600 LIBRARY USE ONLY. Used when acquiring cataloged library materials, will generate capitalization entries on asset object code. Other units should use object code 3630 when purchasing books.
Transfer Out - Intrafund- Between Units Expense 8075 Used in the account providing the funds; accounts on both sides of transfer are in same FUND group (i.e. GN to GN, RG to RG) AND in different college or division. This object code must always be used with 7075.
Interdept - Recruitment - Employee Expense 6342 Interdepartmental (from other Cornell units) expenses incurred during the interview process for potential employees. Use: Employee recruitment- C2C Travel, Hosted Meals, Statler Hotel, on campus parking.
Taxes - Other Expense 6145 Expenditures for state and federal taxes owed by the University. Use: Sales taxes paid as part of purchase should be charged to the initial expense.
Student Federal Work Study-Amer Counts Expense 5585 Undergraduate student regular wages funded by Federal Work Study America Counts outreach program. Zero fringe rate
Cost of Benefits - Retirement Expense 5902 Used for payroll generated entries for the university's expense for contribution to the Endowed employees' retirement plan. Also used to record vendor expenses, such as consulting, related to retirement plans. DFS/HR use only.
Capitalized RE Lease Interest Expense 6926 Interest expense related to capital real estate leases. Use: Not limited
Cost Share - Trsfr of Fds - NonExempt Sa Expense 9925 Cost Share object code for NOEX level. System use only.
Extension Association - Skilled Trades Expense 5260 CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION USE ONLY. Salary for NYS Extension Association skilled trades (printing, farm workers). Max fringe rate -- see KFS Labor Distribution Table Labor Benefits Calculation table for fringe rate %
Interdept - CIT Cloud Services Expense 6607 Computing, storage, and application platform resources hosted by an external vendor and brokered or administered by CIT on behalf of campus users. Use: Charges initiated by CIT. Expenses for the provision of cloud resources covered under a central contract.
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.
F&A Recovery - Expense Expense 9070 Facilities and administrative costs generally associated with contract and grants funds (Fund CG). Charge typically occurs systematically based on a percentage (Indirect Cost Rate) of expenditures. Also referred to as Indirect Costs or F&A. DFS use only.
Interdept Maint Planned - Equipment Expense 6480 Non-capitalized planned maintenance is any maintenance work that can be planned or anticipated and maintains the value of the equipment. Use: Facilities is the primary user of this code.
Capital Acq - Rare Books Expense 3605 LIBRARY USE ONLY. Used when acquiring cataloged library materials, will generate capitalization entries on asset object code. Other units should use object code 3630 when purchasing books.
Transfer Out - DFS ONLY-Between UR & TR Expense 8080 DFS USE ONLY. Transfer between accounts with different restriction classifications, UR and TR only. Must be used with 7080.
Relocation Moving Expense 6345 Expenditures incurred to relocation new employees. Use: Payroll and non-payroll relocation expenses. See relocation policy.
UBIT- Unrelated Business Income Tax Expense 6146 Expenditures for Unrelated Business Income Tax. Use: Unrelated Business Income Tax. DFS Use Only
Student Federal Work Study-Amer Reads Expense 5590 Undergraduate student regular wages funded by Federal Work Study America Reads outreach program. Zero fringe rate

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