Business Glossary

Code Combination ID (CCID)

Unique identifier assigned to the combination of 9 segment codes in the General Ledger Accounting String.

College

Colleges are the primary academic units of the university and administer the university's academic departments and programs.

College Abbreviation

Abbreviated name of the college such as CCAS = Columbian Coll of Arts & Sci

College Code

Primary college code is used to identify colleges such as "01" is for Columbian College

College Group

College Group defined in english tied to the College group code.

College Group Code

Groups Colleges into areas for GW and other universities. Such as 08 is used for Columbian Col & Grad School and Graduate School of Arts & Science.

College Not Encouraged

Indicates if a student responded "Yes" to the following application prompt: I am from a school district where 50% or less of graduates go to college or where college education is not encouraged

Colonial Temps

Colonial Temps are employees who are not Benefit Eligible and are members of GW's internal temp agency of the same name. Colonial Temps typically have limited appointments of 6 months or less.

Coming

Put a "Y" if the latest decision code In ("20","70","72","73")

Comment

Comment is the free form description about the comment code provides more detail about the comment code.


 

Comment Code

Comment Code is a code that relates to specific topics for an employee, like SRN

Comment Date

The date on which the comment was entered by the instructor

Comments

Open-ended comments from the instructor about the student's performance

Comments

Displays any comments for the Course.

Comment Text

Date the transaction was imported from Banner

Commitment Description

The description field from the requisition line entered at the time of the initiation

Commitment Number

Number that identifies a commitment/encumbrance

Committee Hold (Decision Status)

Committee Hold is one of the decision statuses.

Commodity Code

The commodity code is called category code on the purchase orders.  The end user adds the category code to the requisition to determine the type of product or service.  Based on what is selected, the requisition will route to the buyer assigned to that particular category code.

Common Application ID

Id created by the creation of an account in The Common Application system. The existence of an ID does not mean that the student submitted an application.

Compensation (Salary & Fringe Benefits)

This tab in the General Ledger Balance Trend Analysis is an analysis of Compensation-related expenditures. Includes accounts that are under the following Account Reporting Attribute: SALARIES AND WAGES, FRINGE BENEFITS

Compensation Variance

Difference between Budgeted Compensation and Total Compensation

Compensatory Factors

Complete (Application Status)

Complete is one of the application statuses. It indicates the application is ready for review. Complete is used by Undergraduate Admission Office only.

Complete Date

The date, eg. July 4, 2001