Balance Type Code

Following are the field descriptions and balance types used in the General Ledger to identify the type of transaction, for example, actuals, encumbrances and budgets. We recommend using the delivered balance types. Adding new ones may require additional coding; inactivating existing ones may result in unintentional consequences.

Field	Description
Balance Type Code	Identifies the balance type for different uses in system processes. See table below for details.
Balance Type Name	A descriptive label for this balance type code
Short Name	An abbreviated name for a specific balance type to be used where space is limited
Offset Generation	Indicates if offsets are to be generated automatically by the system for the balance type. Remove the check mark if there are no offset generated entries. This field does two things: Determines whether or not a negative entry amount is acceptable. Determines if the entry is allowed to have a debit/credit code. If offset generation is Y then it will have a debit/credit code. When Offset generation is N, this implies a budget entry and the debit/credit code will be blank.
Encumbrance	Indicates if the balance type represents an encumbrance. Remove the check mark if the balance type is not an encumbrance

 

Balance Type Values

Balance Type Code	Balance Type Name	Purpose
A2	A21 BALANCES - LABOR LEDGER ONLY	Used by the Labor Ledger to track changes made to salaries. These transactions do not flow into the General Ledger and are used by Effort Certification to identify when salary was earned in case it is adjusted in a later pay period.
AC	ACTUALS (BALANCE SHEET)	Actual transactions - income, expense, assets, liabilities.
BB	ADJUSTED BASE BUDGET	Base Budget this is normally the planned budget for the year. And used on non-CG accounts to track authorized expenditure authority.
CB	CURRENT BUDGET	Used on Lookups that provide a budget to actual variances - Available Balance, Balances by Consolidation. It is used to make temporary changes to non-CG accounts and used by CG accounts to load budgets which can be rolled forward each year.
CE	COST SHARE ENCUMBRANCES	Used to track Cost Share Encumbrances. Cost Share encumbrances do not roll forward as part of the Encumbrance Forward job, instead they are recreated each year based on the Encumbrances that do roll forward that are associated with cost share sub-accounts.
EX	EXTERNAL ENCUMBRANCE	An official encumbrance, normally associated with purchase orders.
IE	INTERNAL ENCUMBRANCE	An official encumbrance, normally associated with salaries and wages.
MB	MONTHLY BUDGET	For reporting to track budgets monthly.
NB	CLOSE NOMINAL BALANCE	Identifies entries created during annual closing by the nominal activity closing job to close income and expense to fund balance.
PE	PRE-ENCUMBRANCE	An unofficial encumbrance that can be created to earmark funds prior to the creation of the external encumbrance.
RE	YEAR END BUDGET REVERSION	Used by the Organization Reversion jobs to create transactions to revert cash or budget.
TR	TRANSFERS	Identifies transfers in order to keep them separate from regular income and expense activity. Transfers are displayed separately on the Balances by Consolidation Lookup.