Technical data

Glossary
elimination set In PeopleSoft Enterprise General Ledger, a related group of intercompany accounts
that is proces
sed during consolidations.
entry event In PeopleSoft Enterprise General Ledger, Receivables, P ayables, Purchasing, and
Billing, a bus
iness process that generates multiple debits and credits resulting from
single transactions to produce standard, supplemental accounting entries.
equitizatio
n
In PeopleSof
t Enterprise General Ledg er, a bu siness process that enables parent
companies to calculate the net incom e of subsidiaries on a monthly basis and adjust
that amount to increase the investment amoun t and equity incom e amount befo re
performing c
onsolidations.
equity item limit In PeopleSoft Enterprise Camp us Solutions, the am ounts of funds set by the institution
to be awarde
d with discretion a ry or gift funds. The limit could be reduced by am ounts
equal to such things as expected fam ily contrib ution (EFC) or parent contribution.
Students are packaged by Equity Item Type Groups and Related Equity Item Types.
This limit
can be used to assure that similar student populations are packaged equally.
event A predefined point either in the Component Processor flow or in the prog ram flow.
As each poi
nt is encountered, the event activates each component, triggering any
PeopleCode program that is associated with that component and that event. Examples
of events are FieldChange, SavePreChange, and RowDelete.
In People
Soft Enterprise Human R esources, also refers to an incident that affects
benefits eligibility.
event con
straints
In People
Soft Strategic Sourcing, these constraints are associated with a specific
sourcing event. Spend is tracked within the selected event.
event pro
pagation process
In People
Soft Enterpr ise Sales Incentive Management, a process that determines,
through lo gic, the propagation of an origin al PeopleSoft Enterprise Incen tiv e
Management event and creates a derivative (duplicate) o f the original event to
be proce
ssed by other objects. PeopleSoft Enterprise Enterprise Sales Incentive
Management uses this mechanism to implement splits, roll-ups, and so on. Event
propagation determines who receives the credit.
exception In PeopleSoft Enterprise Receivables, an item that either is a deduction or is in dispute.
exclus
ive pricing
In Peop
leSoft Enterprise Order Managem ent, a type of arbitration plan that is
associated with a price rule. Exclusive pricing i s used to price sales order transactions.
fact In Peo
pleSoft Enterprise applications, facts are numeric data values from fields from a
source database as well as an analytic application. A fact can be anything you want
to measure your business by, for examp le , revenue, actual, budget data, or sales
numbe
rs. A fact is stored on a fact table.
financial aid term In PeopleS oft Enterprise Campus Solutions, a co mbination of a period of time that the
scho
ol determines as an instructional accounting period and an academic career. It
is created and defined during the setup process. Only terms eligib le f or financial aid
are set up for each financial aid career.
financial sanctions For U.S. based companies and their foreign subsidiaries, a federal regulation from the
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) requires that vendors be validated against a
Spe
cially Designated Nationals (SDN) list prior to payment.
For PeopleSoft Payables, eSettlements, Cash Management, and Order to Cash, y ou
can validate you r vendors again st any financial sanctions list (for example, the SDN
lis
t, a Europ ean Union list, and so on).
forecast item A logical entity with a unique set of descriptive demand and forecast data that is used
as t
he basis to forecast demand. You create forecast items for a wide range of uses, but
they ultimately represent things that you buy, sell, or use in your organization and for
which you require a predictable usage.
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