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    • Set Up and Manage Accounts
    • Balance Inquiries
    • Finding Account Documentation in KFS
    • Financial Processing e-doc Attachment Guidelines
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    • Capital Assets e-docs
    • Financial Processing e-docs
      • Advance Deposit (AD)
      • Distribution of Income and Expense (DI)
      • Disbursement Voucher (DV)
        • Disbursement Voucher Payees
        • DV Payment Reason Codes
        • Standard Operating Procedure
      • General Error Correction (GEC)
      • Internal Billing (IB)
      • Procurement Card Document (PCDO)
      • Pre-Encumbrance (PE)
      • Transfer of Funds (TF)
    • Labor Distribution e-docs
    • Purchasing e-docs
      • e-SHOP
      • Purchase Order (PO)
      • Purchase Order Amendment (POA)
      • Line-Item Receiving (RCVL)
      • Requisition (REQS)
      • Vendor (PVEN)
  • KDW/Reporting
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FAQ

Chart of Accounts

What is a "chart code"?

Because KFS was designed for colleges and universities, there was a need for each campus (e.g., individual schools in a state system) to have its own chart of accounts. For Cornell, we mostly will use the Ithaca (IT) Chart.

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