AP/CAR - Accounts Payable Controlled Analytical Review - system used for processing payments to vendors

ADD-COMP - Sub-module in WEBSAF that conveys requests for additional compensation payments for monthly employees

B-School - Columbia Business School

CAPS - Purchasing Office backend purchase order system - interacts with FFE Purchasing Requisition Module

COB - Consolidated Operating Budget - found in DWR section of My.Columbia portal - a useful budget report

CUIT - Columbia University Information Technology

CUF - Columbia University Facilities

CUHR - Columbia University Human Resources

CUBHIS - Columbia University Biomedical and Health Information Services

CUMC - Columbia University Medical Center

DARTS - Departmental Advance Reporting and Tracking System - used for creating financial reports from FAS data

DA - Departmental Administrator

DAF - Departmental Authorization Form - used to create a financial authorization profile for qualified administrators

DWR - Data Warehouse - section of My.Columbia portal that houses various reporting mechanisms

EZ-PO - FFE generated Purchase Order for small dollar and UwPA transactions

EM - Exception Memorandum

FAS - Financial Accounting System - the University’s main accounting system

FFE - Financial Front End - front end interface that brings together various action and report modules - interacts with FAS

FINSYS - Financial Systems section of My.Columbia Portal

HRPC - Human Resources Processing Center

ICR - Indirect Cost Recovery - associated with sponsored grant overhead costs

IDI - Inter Departmental Invoice - used by CU departments who need to charge other CU departments for services rendered

JAC - Jobs@Columbia

JE - Journal Entry - mechanism for transferring funds between FAS accounts

LDS - Labor Distribution System - used by Payroll Department to track and process employee labor and salary data

NFY - New Fiscal Year

OFY - Old Fiscal Year

PAC - People@Columbia (also referred to as PeopleSoft system) - Used to create or modify PAFs (Personal Action Forms)

PAD - Payroll Accounting Distribution - breakdown of personnel salary costs as charged across FAS accounts

PAF - Personnel Action Form - used to convey individual personnel data to HR and Payroll systems

PAT - Payroll Account Transfer form - used to accomplish payroll specific accounting entries

PC - Petty Cash - cash held in department for small or emergency purchases

PO - University Central Purchase Order

RG - Regular Earnings - refers to the most commonly used payroll earnings code

SAF - Salary Action Form - used to convey labor information to payroll (i.e. which FAS accounts salary will be charged to)

SIC - Standard Industry Code - used to identify types of payments in AP systems

SIS - Student Information System - student oriented system that conveys academic registration status to other CU systems

SPOTS - Sponsored Projects Tracking System

TBER (aka T&E) - Travel and Business Expense Report

UDAR - University Development and Alumni Relations

UwPA - University-wide Purchasing Agreements are those supplier relationships for products and/or services that have cost, terms and other business elements negotiated by the Purchasing Office.

WEBSAF - Web system used to convey SAF information to Payroll and HRPC

ZT (Module) - Old term for what is now called the FFE Time Entry Module - used to pay casual (non-permanent) employees or make additions or deductions to weekly or bi-weekly regular employees.   Also refers to paper forms used for the same purpose.