TRANSACTIONS

(Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Abatements, Transfers)
Transactions are entered on the Master form.

For purposes of school/department budgets, a transaction is comprised of 11 elements (12 if SubAccount is used). Each transaction will have: 1) Budget Year Example: 97-98 or 1997-98, etc. You may use letters or numbers to designate the Budget Year. You MUST be consistent. If you have a Budget Year of 97-98 for an Account and then you use Budget Year 1997-98 (extra 19) for another Account, you have actually created 2 separate budgets. You may track as many separate budgets as you wish, however, each separate account within a budget MUST have identical Budget Years. Budget Years may be letters or numbers up to 7 digits. 2) Fund Example: 100 or 01, etc. The actual Fund numbers are the numbers used by your district. Some types of Funds are General-Unrestricted, General-Restricted, Lottery, Donations, etc. Your specific Fund numbers are supplied by your District Office or County Accounting Departments. Fund numbers may be letters or numbers up to 4 digits. 3) Program Example: 24050000 or 1150-0000, etc. The actual Program numbers are the numbers used by your district. Some types of Programs are Instructional Program, School Administration, Chapter I, etc. Your specific Program numbers are supplied by your District Office or County Accounting Departments. Program numbers may be letters or numbers up to 10 digits. 4) Location Example: 030 or 175-00, etc. The actual Location numbers are the numbers used by your district. Your specific Location numbers are supplied by your District Office or County Accounting Departments. Location numbers may be letters or numbers up to 6 digits. 5) Object Example: 4110 or 411001, etc. The actual Object numbers are the numbers used by your district. Some types of Objects are Office Supplies, Textbooks, Travel & Conference, etc. Your specific Object numbers are supplied by your District Office or County Accounting Departments. Object numbers may be letters or numbers up to 7 digits long. 6) SubAccount Example: Smith or Jones, etc. You may use letters or numbers to designate a SubAccount. If the SubAccount field is filled in, then a subaccount will be created. This field is OPTIONAL. If used, then Budget Years MUST be consistent. If you have a Budget Year of 97-98 for a SubAccount and then you use Budget Year 1997-98 (note the extra 19) for another SubAccount, you have actually created 2 separate budgets. You may track as many separate SubAccounts as you wish, however, each separate account within a budget MUST have identical Budget Years. SubAccounts may be letters or numbers up to 14 digits. 7) Date Example: 07/01/97, 7/1/97, 070197, 7-1-97 If a date is not entered, then the current date will be used. 8) Req # Example: 123456 or ABCDEF, 1A2B3C, etc. Requisition numbers may be letters/numbers up to 6 digits. 9) PO # Example: 987654 or FEDCBA, A1B2C3, etc. Purchase Order numbers may be letters/numbers up to 6 digits. 10) Expended Example: 123.00, 123, 123.12, etc. 11) Encumbered Example: 123.00, 123, 123.12, etc. 12) Description Example: Any text up to 300 characters. Some examples of transactions: Example #1 Year 97-98 Fund 100 = General-unrestricted Program 11500000 = Instructional Program Location 030 = John Doe High School Object 4110 = Textbooks Teacher Date 7/1/97 Req # 123456 PO # Expended Encumbered 123.12 Description Science textbooks for Smith Example #2 Year 97-98 Fund 101 = Special Projects Program 2405400 = School Administration Location 030 = John Doe High School Object 4523 = Office Supplies Teacher Date 7/1/97 Req # 654321 PO # 234567 Expended 123 Encumbered Description Warehouse copier paper

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