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Relevance to AAE in Reporting

Relevant. Reports in the Emory Business Intelligence (EBI) reporting tool cannot be run using a SpeedType, so the department
number is a key field for filtering data on an operating budget report.

FUND
Use

Broad restrictions or reporting requirements imposed on the funds (either by a donor or by Emory internally).

Length

Four (4) characters

Requirement in Transactions

Required value in all transactions.

Examples

• 1002-E&G (Education & General) Budgeted (primary AAE transaction fund code)
• 2371-Designated Funds
• 2512-IT Projects-Level 2
• 3311-Restricted Funds
• 6129-Endowment-UR-Pool 1
• 9229-Endowment-Perm Restricted

Values for AAE

AAE has funds in each of the example fund codes note above. Operating budget transactions for AAE departments are always
in fund 1002.

Relevance to AAE in Reporting

Somewhat relevant. The bulk of AAE’s transactions are on fund code 1002 (Education & General). Running a UOB (University
Operating Budget) report in EBI will only include the UOB fund codes, of which fund 1002 is in that grouping. When running a
transaction detail report, all column values in the Fund Group filter are included some departments may receive transactions
across funds other than 1002.

CLASS
Use

Functional classification of expenses using National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO)
classifications. Allows the University to classify their expenses on financial reports and the IRS 990 tax return.

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