Delivered ChartFields

PeopleSoft delivers the following ChartFields:

Label Long Name Label Short Name ChartField Name (Field Length) Component Name and Component Interface Description

Account

Account

ACCOUNT (10)

Component: GL_ACCOUNT

Component Interface: ACCOUNT_CF

Classifies the nature of a transaction. This field is required. Use it for corporate accounts.

Alternate Account

Alt Acct

ALTACCT (10)

Component: ALTACCT

Component Interface: ALTACCT_CF

Classifies the nature of a transaction for regulatory authorities. Use it for statutory accounting.

Operating Unit

Oper Unit

OPERATING_UNIT (8)

Component: OPERATING_UNIT

Component Interface: OPER_UNIT_CF

Can be used to indicate a location, such as a distribution warehouse or a sales center.

Fund Code

Fund

FUND_CODE (5)

Component: FUND_DEFINITION

Component Interface: FUND_CF

The primary structural units of Education and Government accounting.

Department

Dept

DEPTID (10)

Component: DEPARTMENT

Component Interface: DEPT_CF

Tracks information according to a divisional breakdown of your organization. Can be used to indicate who is responsible for or affected by a transaction.

Program Code

Program

PROGRAM_CODE (5)

Component: PROGRAM_DEFINITION

Component Interface: PROGRAM_CF

Tracks revenue and expenditures for programs within or across your organizations. Can be used to identify groups of related activities, cost centers, revenue centers, responsibility centers and academic programs.

Class Field

Class

CLASS_FLD (5)

Component: CLASS_PNL

Component Interface: CLASS_CF

Can be used to identify specific appropriations.

Budget Reference

Bud Ref

BUDGET_REF (8)

Component: BUDREF_PNL

Component Interface: BUDGET_REF_CF

Use to identify unique budgets, when individual budgets share budget keys and overlapping budget periods.

Product

Product

PRODUCT (6)

Component: PRODUCT

Component Interface: PRODUCT_CF

Captures additional information useful for profitability and cash flow analysis by product sold or manufactured.

PC Business Unit (project costing business unit)

PC Bus Unit

BUSINESS_UNIT_PC (5)

Component: PC_BU_DEFN

Component: PC_BUS_UNIT_OPT

Component Interface: PROJECT_BU_OPTIONS

Use as an operational subset of an organization to organize project activity independently of the constraints of the standard accounting procedures for the financial posting and reporting of the organization. You create PC Business Units on the Project Costing Definition page.

Project ID/Grant

Project

PROJECT_ID (15)

Component: PROJECT

Component Interface: PROJECT_CF

Captures additional information useful for grant and project accounting.

The Project ChartField does not have effective dating.

Activity

Activity

ACTIVITY_ID (15)

Component: FS_ACTIVITY_TBL

Component Interface: PC_STD_ACT_INTFC

Activities are the specific tasks that make up a project. You create activities on the Project Activities page or the Activity Details page.

Source Type

Source Type

RESOURCE_TYPE (5)

Component: PROJ_RES_TYPE

Component Interface: PC_RES_TYPE_INTFC

Source types identify the purpose or origin of a transaction. For example, you might create a source type of Labor to track total labor costs in a project.

Category

Category

RESOURCE_CATEGORY (5)

Component: PROJ_CATG_DEFN

Component Interface: PC_CATG_DEFN_INTFC

Use categories to further define source types.

Although defining categories and subcategories is optional, using them provides greater flexibility and granularity for tracking and analyzing costs.

Subcategory

Subcategory

RESOURCE_SUB_CAT (5)

Component: PROJ_SUBCAT_DEFN

Component Interface: PC_SUBCAT_DEFN_INTFC

Use subcategories to further define categories.

ChartField 1

N/A

CHARTFIELD1 (10)

Component: CHARTFIELD1

Component Interface: CHARTFIELD1

Generic expansion ChartField is delivered Inactive. It can be configured for use, hidden, or deleted

ChartField 2

N/A

CHARTFIELD2 (10)

Component: CHARTFIELD2

Component Interface: CHARTFIELD2

Generic expansion ChartField is delivered Inactive. It can be configured for use, hidden or deleted

ChartField 3

N/A

CHARTFIELD3 (10)

Component: CHARTFIELD3

Component Interface: CHARTFIELD3

Generic expansion ChartField is delivered Inactive. It can be configured for use, hidden or deleted

Affiliate

Affiliate

AFFILIATE (5)

N/A

Used to map transactions between Business units when using a single interunit account.

Fund Affiliate

Fund Affil

AFFILIATE_INTRA1 (10)

N/A

Use to correlate transactions between Funds when using a single intraunit account.

Operating Unit Affiliate

Oper Unit Affil

AFFILIATE_INTRA2 (10)

N/A

Use to correlate transactions between Operating Units when using a single intraunit account.

Scenario

Scenario

BD_SCENARIO (10)

Component: BD_SCENARIO

Component Interface: BUDGET_SCENARIO

Identifies different budget iterations that use different assumptions.

Book Code

Book Code

BOOK_CODE (4)

N/A

Identifies subsets of ledger rows to segregate and maintain in the same ledger various accounting, recording and reporting requirements for transactions in different accounting environments.

Adjustment Type

Adjustment

GL_ADJUST_TYPE (4)

N/A

Use to define Adjustment Types associated with varying accounting treatments of prior period adjustments.

Statistics Code

Stat. Cd.

STATISTICS_TBL

Component: STATISTICS_TBL

Component Interface: STATISTICS_CODE

Use to define statistical data such as number of units.

PeopleSoft Project Costing ChartFields are further described in the product documentation for PeopleSoft FSCM: Project Costing.

Business unit is not considered a ChartField.

WARNING:

If you have not licensed PeopleSoft Project Costing, Expenses, Resource Management, or Services Procurement and you see the following ChartFields: PC Business Unit, Activity, Source Type, Category, or Subcategory on pages, deselect the check boxes for these products on the Installation Options - Products page and run ChartField configuration to inactivate the ChartFields because they are specific to these products.

If you have not licensed Project Costing but have licensed Expenses, Resource Management, or Services Procurement and you still see Source Type, Category, or Subcategory on pages, deselect the check boxes for the unlicensed products on the Installation Options - Products page and run ChartField configuration to inactivate these ChartFields because they are specific to Project Costing. ChartFields that are not necessary can cause performance and other processing problems when they are allowed to remain active.

See Using Standard ChartField Configuration.

See PeopleSoft Project Costing: Understanding Project-Related Control Data.