UCD Accounting Glossary

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Term	Definition
DaFIS	Acronym for the Davis Financial Information System.
Debit (to an account)	An increase in expense or a decrease in income. For balance sheet accounts, an increase in assets, or decrease in fund balances or liability accounts.
Decision Support (DS)	A server that holds a copy of the University's financial data. The data is available for viewing, reporting and analysis. The web based system used to run queries of the university's financial data.
Delegate	An FIS user assigned primary, or non-primary, duties for managing the transactions in an account. This user is designated by the account manager as having the sole, or shared, responsibility for the assigned account.
Disbursements	Payments.
Document	An online screen used to process a transaction. Electronic equivalent to a paper form.
Document Initiator	The DaFIS user who opens and completes an electronic document.
Document Type	All documents in DaFIS are identified by a document type - e.g. the Vendor Invoice is identified as VI. Document type can be used to narrow the results of a search for a particular document. More information on the document types can be found in the Document Types and Uses online help resource.
DS Only User	A user that has been given selected access to Decision Support queries. This access has been specified by an Access Manager within the user's school/unit/department.

Term

Definition

DaFIS

Acronym for the Davis Financial Information System.

Debit (to an account)

An increase in expense or a decrease in income. For balance sheet accounts, an increase in assets, or decrease in fund balances or liability accounts.

Decision Support (DS)

A server that holds a copy of the University's financial data. The data is available for viewing, reporting and analysis.
The web based system used to run queries of the university's financial data.

Delegate

An FIS user assigned primary, or non-primary, duties for managing the transactions in an account. This user is designated by the account manager as having the sole, or shared, responsibility for the assigned account.

Disbursements

Payments.

Document

An online screen used to process a transaction. Electronic equivalent to a paper form.

Document Initiator

The DaFIS user who opens and completes an electronic document.

Document Type

All documents in DaFIS are identified by a document type - e.g. the Vendor Invoice is identified as VI. Document type can be used to narrow the results of a search for a particular document. More information on the document types can be found in the Document Types and Uses online help resource.

DS Only User

A user that has been given selected access to Decision Support queries. This access has been specified by an Access Manager within the user's school/unit/department.

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