| Term | Definition |
| ACM | A document type for Assign Contract Manager |
| AD | Advance Deposit. |
| AICPA | An acronym for American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. |
| AP | Stands for Accounts Payable. |
| APO | Stands for Automatic Purchase Order. See Automatic Purchase Order. |
| AV | A Document Type code for the Auxiliary Voucher document. |
| BA | A Document Type Code for the Budget Adjustment Document. See also Budget Adjustment. |
| CAMS | Capital Asset Management System, Indiana's property management system used as a baseline for development of the Capital Assets Module. |
| CCR | A Document Type Code for the Credit Card Receipt document. |
| CFDA | Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. |
| CG | Contracts and Grants |
| CM | Stands for Credit Memo |
| CMD | A document type code for the Cash Management Document |
| COA | Chart of Accounts The basic structure of the account file. This defines the account number and its attributes, as well as the object codes (income and expense classes), and other key elements of the general ledger file. |
| CR | A document type code for the Cash Receipt document. |
| CSF | Calculated Salary Foundation. |
| CSFUPD | (1) An abbreviation for Calculated Salary Foundation Update. (2) A Function Control Code (system-defined value). Enables the updating of the calculated salary foundation (CSF). |
| CSV | See also Comma-Separated Value. |
| DUNS | (1) An acronym for Data Universal Numbering System. (2) The DUNS number is a unique identifier for businesses that register with Dun and Bradstreet. |
| DV | Disbursement Voucher. |
| ECL | (1) An acronym for Educational Community License. (2) All software and material is available under the Educational Community License and may be adopted by colleges and universities without licensing fees. The open licensing approach also provides opportunities for support and implementation assistance from commercial affiliates. |
| EICR | Origin Entry Group ID for Indirect Cost Recovery Encumbrance entries. See also Origin Entry Group, Indirect Cost Recovery, and Encumbrance. |
| FASB | Financial Accounting Standards Board; sets accounting standards for non-public institutions. |
| FEIN | A Federal Employer Identification Number is also known as an Employer Identification Number (EIN) and is used by the federal government to identify a business entity. The vendor in Kuali is keyed on either the FEIN or SSN - except when the vendor is foreign and no tax number is required. |
| FTE | Full-Time Equivalent. A way to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or a student's enrollment at an educational institution. An FTE of 1.0 means that the person is equivalent to a full-time worker while an FTE of 0.5 signals that the worker is only half-time. |
| FYI | A workflow action request that can be cleared from a user's Action List with or without opening and viewing the document. A document with no pending approval requests but with pending Acknowledge requests is in Processed status. A document with no pending approval requests but with pending FYI requests is in Final status. See also Ad Hoc Routing and Action Request. |
| GASB | Governmental Accounting Standards Board. It sets accounting standards for public institutions. |
| GEC | General Error Correction. |
| GLCP | General Ledger Correction Process. |
| HRMS | Human Resources Management System. |
| IB | (1) An acronym for Internal Billing. (2) A Document Type Code for the Internal Billing Document. |
| ICA | Document Type Code for the Indirect Cost Adjustment. |
| ICR | Indirect Cost Revenue, also Indirect Cost Recovery. |
| JV | Journal Voucher. |
| KCA | Kuali Commercial Affiliates. |
| KEM | Kuali Endowment Management. |
| KEN | Kuali Enterprise Notification. |
| KEW | Kuali Enterprise Workflow. |
| KFS | Kuali Financial System. |
| KIM | Kuali Identity Management. |
| KNS | Kuali Nervous System. |
| KPP | Kuali Partners Program. |
| KR | Kuali Rice. |
| KRA | Kuali Research Administration. |
| KS | Kuali Student. |
| KTC | Kuali Technical Council. |
| LBF | A prefix identifying Labor Year-End Balance Forward entries in the Origin Entry Group table. |
| LOC | Letter Of Credit. |
| MPE | A prefix identifying GL Main Poster Error Entries in the Origin Entry Group table. |
| MPV | A prefix identifying GL Main Poster Valid Entries in the Origin Entry Group table. |
| NACUBO | National Association of College and University Business Officers. |
| PDP | Pre Disbursement Processor. See Pre\-Disbursement Processor. |
| PO | Short for Purchase Order. |
| POA | Purchase Order Amendment. |
| POC | Purchase Order Close. |
| POR | Purchase Order Reopen. |
| PORH | Purchase Order Remove Hold. |
| POV | Purchase Order Void. |
| RC | Responsibility Center. |
| RPE | (1) An acronym for Reversal Poster Error. (2) A prefix identifying GL Reversal Poster Error Entries in the Origin Entry Group table. |
| RPV | (1) An acronym for Reversal Poster Valid. (2) A prefix identifying GL Reversal Poster Valid Entries in the Origin Entry Group table. |
| SB | See Service Billing. |
| SCE | (1) An acronym for Scrubber Error Entries. (2) A prefix identifying GL Scrubber Error Entries in the Origin Entry Group table. These entries will need correcting via the General Ledger Correction Process. |
| SOA | An acronym for Service Oriented Architecture. |
| URL | An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. |
| XML | (1) An acronym for Extensible Markup Language. (2) Used for data import/export. See also XML Ingester. |