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Oracle Vocab

Subjects : oracle, it-skills
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1. The estimated cost amounts at completion of a project. Cost budget amounts can be summary or detail - and ca be burdened or unburdened.






2. Contributions or gifts of cash or other assets from another government or agency to be used or expended for a specified purpose - activity or facility.






3. An Actual order(sub-order) of goods and services issued against a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for actual delivery with specified quantities - dates and the accounting information.






4. Does not include paid or unpaid leave - work performed on behalf of a busness entity which is required for that entity to fullfil its business purpose.






5. The of the cost of a fixed asset - other than a wasting asset - charged as an expense during a particular period. The cost of a fixed asses less any salvage value is prorated over the estimated service life of such an asset - and each period is charg






6. A type of purchasing document used to reference POs to a specific contract. It may include terms and conditions - agreed amounts - and an effective and expiration date.






7. A type of purchase order that can be issued for delivery of goods or services for specific dates and locations. Each standard purchase order line can have multiple shipments and ca distribute the quantity of each shipment across multiple accounts.






8. Use of an appropriation to purchse goods and services necessary to carry out the responsibilities of a department or organization. Expenditures are decreases in net financial resources.






9. The amount computed by dividing an aggregate balance by the number of calendar days in the related range.






10. An excess of liabilites over assets - of losses over profits - or of expenditures over revenue.






11. Accounts for the County's financial resources except those required to be accounted for in another fund.






12. The budget amounts for a project at the first successful Baselining of the project.






13. Annual principal and interest payments that local government owes on borrowed money.






14. The Board of Supervisors approved an annual spending plan for proprietary funds. The adopted expense estimates are not appropriations - their budgetary controls are the same as those of governments funds.






15. A document received from a supplier that lists amounts owed to the supplier for purchased good or services.






16. Is derived from taxes - licenses - fees - and investment earnings.






17. Those elements of cost necessary in the production of an article or the performance of a service but no an integral part of the finished product or service - such as rent - heat - light - supplies - management - supervision - etc.






18. The electronic process of mainaining an itemized list of current inventory.






19. The amount of revenue expected to accrue or to be collected during a fiscal year.






20. Accounts for the financingof goods and services provided by one department or agency to other departments or agency on a cost-reimbursement basis.






21. Accounts for the accumulation for and the payment of general long-term principal and interest.






22. Includes the all elements of cost for the production of a good or service - including direct - indirect - and overhead costs. Full cost includes raw costs - plus all apllicable burden costs for raw labor.






23. Accounts for the proceeds of specific revenue sources ( except pension trust and major capital projects) that are legally restricted to expenditures for specific purposes.






24. A self-balancing set of accounts.






25. The additional to cash or other current assets of governmental funds( receipts) which do not increase any liability or reserve and do not represent the recovery of an expenditure from services to others ( reimbursements).






26. An internal request for goods or services. A requisiton can originate from an employee or from another process. Each requition can include many lines - generally with a distict item on each requisition line.






27. A large database containing data summarized from one or more transactional systems - optimized to support the analysis needs of the enterprise.






28. Non-Capital Project. Non productive time as a type of indirect project to track paid time off. Printing - mails - purchasing - contracting - fleet - facilities. and admin projects ( overhead - training - travel - etc ).






29. Enterprise Funds - Internal Service Fund






30. A periodic - often annual - reconciliation of all inventory item physical counts with system on-hand quantities.






31. Budget authority that is set aside when a purchase order or contract is approved. A limitation - reserve or obligations placed on a budget appropriation to pay for good or services that have been ordered by means of contracts - purchase orders - IA -






32. A grant - subsidy - revenue agreement - revenue contract - or specific funding which is allocated to an organization for a specific purpose(s) and can be used to fund one or more projects - An award is usually billed or invoiced to a Customer ( i.e.






33. A fund used to account for the proceeds of specific revenue sources that are legally restricted to expendiutres for a specified purpose.






34. Funds that account for resources that government hold in trust for individuals or other governments. Examples include the Community Services Trust Fund for Developer deposit and School District Funds tha are included in the County Investment Pool.






35. An Inventory carried on accounting records as an asset whose stock items are valued at their unit cost times their quantity on hand - and the stock value is not expensed to a final user account until the material is issued to that user.






36. Additional revenue received beyond that which was budgeted and which may be made available for the financing requirements of the County.






37. Locally generated revenues derived from property taxes - sales taxes - vehicle license fees - court fines and fund balances. Affected by local economic conditions.






38. The financial plan in terms of the costs of activities to be undertaken to achieve specific goals and objectives - which form a department's operational components.






39. A type of Purchase Order that is issued to specify agreed-to prices - delivery periods or other terms for goods or services that will be ordered ( released) for actual delivery later. A BPA is normally issued to cover a long-term agreement period suc






40. A promise to repay borrowed money on a particular date - often ten or twenty years in the future; most bonds involve a promise to pay a specified dollar amount of interest at predetermined intervals. Bonds are a mechanism used to obtain long-term fin






41. The operational distribution of General Purpose Revenues to various County departments and programs through the Agency/Groups and subject to Board approval.






42. When the PO is created from the Requisiton in Purchasing. This action then relieves the Commitment encumbrance that was created by the Requsition and creates an Obligation.






43. The difference between a fund's assets and its liabilites. A surplus or deficit of assets over liabilites and reserves within a specific fund or organizational unit. A comparison of projected ependitures and revenues with related appropriations. Port






44. The version of the Operations Plan that is formally approved and implemented by the Board of Supervisors after the proposed Operational Plan has gone through a process of Change Letters - public hearing - and deliberations.






45. A method employed in the constructon and /or maintenance of projects and activities - wherby the County's own personnel are used to perform the services - instead of an outside contractor. This method may also call for the purchase or use of the Coun






46. A unit with budgetary control and/or management responsibilities for financial transactions. Represents the 'cost center'qualifier segment required in Oracle and is at the trasactional level of input( child).






47. An itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered






48. A fund used to account for the financing of good or services provided by one department to other departments of the County - or to other governmental units - on a cost-reimbursement basis.






49. The authorized budget for a project or task - which is used for performance reporting and revenue calculation.






50. The major fund in most government unit - the General Fund accounts for all activities not accounted for in other funds. Most functions such as Public Safety or Health Services and Human Resources are accounted for in the General Fund.