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Chart of Accounts (FOAPAL)
OVERVIEW of 黑料不打烊's Chart of Accounts
The Chart of Accounts (CoA)听is the coding structure consisting of elements听used to classify, record, budget and report financial transactions. There are six independent elements comprising the Chart of Accounts and the order in which they fall create the acronym "FOAPAL": An overview of each element is given in the table below.
| Letter |
Element |
Definition | Examples | Coding Scheme |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | FUND | Indicates the source of money and how it must be used. (6 characters, 2 levels of Type / 4 levels of Code of hierarchy) | MRC Grant, General operating fund | First digit 1: Unrestricted Funds 2: Restricted Funds 4: Restricted Student Loans 6: Endowment Funds 8: Trust Funds 9: Plant Funds B: Bank Funds |
| O | ORGANIZATION | Departmental entities or budgetary units within the University. (5 characters, 6 levels of hierarchy) | Faculty of Science, NCS, Economics | Uses Administrative Unit tables codes; First digit of 9 represents a non data-enterable roll-up code. |
| A | ACCOUNT | Describes the nature of expenditures, revenues, assets, liabilities and fund balances. (6 characters, 2 levels of Type / 4 levels of code hierarchy) | Travel expense, Tuition revenue, Accounts payable | First digit 1: Assets 2: Liabilities 3: Control Accounts 4: Fund Balances 5: Revenue 6: Salaries/Wages and Benefits 7: Expenditures 8: Transfers |
| P | PROGRAM | Functional reporting classification for tracking use of funds. (4 characters, 4 levels of hierarchy) | Teaching, Administration, Library Services | First digit 1: Teaching 2: Research 3: Academic Services 4: Support Services 5: Community Services 6: Student Services 7: Ancillary Services |
| A | ACTIVITY | A user defined element to be used for independent reporting needs not required for external reporting purposes. (6 characters, no hierarchy) | Piano vs Violin Activity in the Faculty of Music | 听 |
| L | LOCATION | Identifies physical location of financial activity and fixed assets. (6 characters, 3 levels of hierarchy) | James Admin Building, Dawson Hall | 听 |
Chart code "1" represents the 黑料不打烊 University set of books, and defaults in when querying and posting transactions.