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Count Grade

Count GradeA user-defined evaluation of a counting even ...

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Count Point

Count PointA predefined step on a routing or operation list where you can gather operation completioninformation. You define the appropriate points on the routing, record completions at thesecount points, and the system automatically backflushes the prior operations. This is only usedon production ID ...

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Cost Template

Cost TemplateA collection of cost components that you can apply to a group of purchased item ...

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Cost Type

Cost TypeA user-defined method of categorizing item costs in Manufacturing for simulations and whatifanalysis. Examples of cost types include current costs (which reflect the item's current billof material or routing), proposed costs (which could be used in preparation for the nextstandard cost period), or activity-based costs (which include costs for items that consume agiven activity ...

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Cost Version Type

Cost Version TypeA combination of cost types and cost versions used in cost rollups. Valid values includeproduction (rolls up only manufacturing data and uses only the primary BOM and routing,each with a code of 1), engineering (can roll up with either manufacturing or engineering data,with any combination of BOM/routing codes), or simulation (only rolls up with manufacturingdata, but can use any combination of BOM/routing ...

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Cost Profile

Cost ProfileA combination of a receipt cost method, a cost flow, and a deplete cost method. A profile isassociated with a cost book and determines how items in that book are valued, as well as howthe material movement of the item is valued for the boo ...

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Cost Profile Group

Cost Profile GroupA grouping of items for the purpose of costing transactions and valuing inventory for a givenbook. Assigning an item to a cost profile group determines the books used by the item whenaccounting for that ite ...

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Cost Roll-up

Cost Roll-upA process for calculating item costs. Cost roll-up provides a summation of all of the costsassociated with the bill of material structure and the routing used in producing the ite ...

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Cost Row

Cost RowA cost transaction and amount for a set of ChartField ...

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Cost Objects

Cost ObjectsCost objects represent cost information about products, customers, and channels. They are thefinal results of the activities performed by your business, representing the focal point ofcosting and profitability analysis. Examples are products, customers and channels. They arethe final results of the activities performed by your business. Your model’s resources andactivities are linked to the cost objects. ...

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Cost of Capital

Cost of CapitalAn attribute used to describe the behavior of a particular cost object. A primary cost object istypically the main focus of the activity-based management analysis. This may be a product,customer or channel that you wish to calculate cost for. A support cost object may be used ina similar manner but may be further allocated to other support cost objects or primary costobjects. ...

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Cost Of Living Allowance (COLA), Non-Foreign

Cost Of Living Allowance (COLA), Non-ForeignA cost-of-living allowance payable to an employee at a location in a non-foreign area whereliving costs are substantially higher than those in the Washington, DC area. ...

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Cost Basis

Cost BasisTypically, this refers to the original price of an asset used in determining capital gains.However, in the case of death of an optionee, the appraised value of the asset at the time ofdeath is the cost basi ...

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Cost Center

Cost CenterA Time and Labor Business Unit, in which all related costs attributable to some center withina business (such as an activity, an organization, or a program), are segregated for accountingor reimbursement purpose ...

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Cost Flow

Cost FlowDetermines how depletions will occur for purposes of costing a transaction. Cost flowsavailable include Specific Lot ID, Specific Serial ID, FIFO, and LIF ...

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Correspondence Customer

Correspondence CustomerA customer to whom all correspondence (statements) is addressed, often a corporate customerreceiving correspondence for associated child customer ...

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Cost Accounting

Cost AccountingA method where business costs are accumulated and distributed to products, processes, ordiscrete undertakings on an equitable basis. There are a variety of cost accounting methods,but they all share the same basic functions. classifying costs, recording costs, allocating coststo products or activities, summarizing and reporting costs to management. Cost accountingrequirements and financial accounting ...

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Cost Assignment

Cost AssignmentResources assigned to cost objects or activitie ...

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Correction to IRR

Correction to IRRAn IRR type used when corrections need to be made to an original IRR that has already beensubmitted to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Federal employees covered by theCSRS retirement plan require SF-2806-1. Federal employees covered by the FERS retirementplan require SF-3101. A Correction IRR is also used if original retirement deductions wereover-reported. See also Individual Retirement Record ...

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Corporate Repurchase

Corporate RepurchaseWhen a corporation elects to repurchase some of it’s own securities. This reduces theCommon Shares Issued and Outstanding. Typically, used to improve the valuation of thecompany’s common securities outstanding as well as the Earnings Per Share (EPS ...

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Corporate Reporting

Corporate ReportingCompanies with more than $10 million in assets whose securities are held by more than 500owners must file annual and other periodic reports. Publicly held companies are required tofile documents with the SEC which include:• Registration statements for newly-offered securities• Annual and quarterly filings (Forms 10-K and 10-Q)• Proxy materials sent to shareholders before an annual meeting• Annual ...

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Core Functionality

Core FunctionalityCore functionality is the set of information in PeopleSoft HRMS that is common to your entireglobal workforce tracking needs—and is always displayed on the primary pag ...

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Core hours

Core hoursThe hours a workday, workweek or pay period in which a time reporter must be present forwork in a flexible work schedule (see Scheduling ...

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Corporate Account

Corporate AccountIn PeopleSoft applications, this is equivalent to the Account (ACCOUNT) ChartField. Theterm is used to make a distinction between the chart of accounts typically used to record andreport financial information for management, stockholders, and the general public, as opposedto a chart of statutory (Alternate ) accounts required by a regulatory authority for recordingand reporting financial informatio ...

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Conversion Loader

Conversion LoaderA sample SQR delivered with PeopleSoft Asset Management that transfers data from multiplefixed-length ASCII files into sample, relational conversion table ...

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Copy Bill

Copy BillIn PeopleSoft Billing, the online environment providing for the replication of a single bill,generating a new bill with its own unique invoice numbe ...

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Control Plan

Control PlanIn PeopleSoft Quality, a plan that brings together application, measurement, and control andresponse criteria for a specific product and proces ...

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Conversation

ConversationAny notes, transcript, or detail of a telephone call between an employee and a customer.Conversations may be tied to items, payments, purchase orders, document references, or billsof ladin ...

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Conversion data profile

Conversion data profileA conversion data profile takes the values from a particular PeopleSoft database table (such asthe table holding bank transaction codes) and specifies how that value appears in PeopleSoftBusiness Document ...

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Control Group

Control GroupA mechanism to relate vouchers together for the purpose of controlling voucher input intoPeopleSoft Payables. Generally used for assigning vouchers to data entry personnel and forreviewing input.A set of parameters that determines the major forecast process options. The Control Groupcode is assigned to a group of Forecast Item and controls the forecast development andtracking for each item in the group.Control ...

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Control Hierarchy

Control HierarchyThe relationship between business units, origins, vendors, and control groups in PeopleSoftPayables that defines which processing data will be automatically entered on each vouche ...

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Control Number

Control NumberA sequential identifying number used to identify an exercis ...

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Control Budget

Control BudgetCommitment control enables you to establish budgets that provide extensive, active budgetarycontrols over transactions, rather than just passively recording transaction ...

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Control ChartField

Control ChartFieldA control ChartField is a key ChartField that you designate to be the control field. Designatinga ChartField as the control allows you to set attributes for a specific value of the ChartFieldthat are different from the attributes specified for the budget type in general. For example, ifthe tolerance for a Projects budget type is set to 10% in general, you can override this value,making it higher or ...

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Contribution

ContributionRepresents money a stock purchase participant elects to contribute to the plan. Contributionsare deducted from the participant’s paycheck and used to purchase stock pursuant to theoffering and purchase period they are enrolle ...

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Contributory Plan

Contributory PlanA Pension plan to which employees contribute. Contributions are typically a percentage ofpay deducted from the employees’ paycheck ...

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Contracting Officer (CO)

Contracting Officer (CO)Individual who has the authority and the official responsibility to produce a sound acquisitiondocumen ...

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Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR)

Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR)Individual responsible for monitoring a contract and its associated tasks and deliverable ...

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Contractor

ContractorAny individual or non-employee reporting time that will not be paid through the payrollsyste ...

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Contingent Beneficiary

Contingent BeneficiaryIn PeopleSoft Pension Administration, any non-spouse pension beneficiary, including a child,other relative, or a trust. Spousal consent is required in order for an employee to name acontingent beneficiar ...

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Workday Override

Workday OverrideA function that allows a Time Manager to override a Time Reporter’s schedule for a singleworkday. For example, Jane’s long-term schedule assignment is Monday – Friday, 8.00 to17.00. Due to an increase in production demand, her manager needs to schedule her to work7.00 to 18.00 on Thursday, 16 March 2000. Her manager needs to be able to make thischange to her schedule in the PeopleSoft Time and Labor ...

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Contextual reference

Contextual referencePeopleCode refers to a row or buffer field determined by the current context; that is, thecontext in which the PeopleCode program is currently executin ...

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Contact

ContactA person associated with a Customer ID. Contacts can be internal contacts or externalcontacts. Internal contacts are your employees who manage the relationship with yourcustomers, from handling billing inquiries to product/warranty questions, to basicproduct/service questions. Interactions with customers can be recorded via PeopleSoftConversations. Self service interactions can be recorded through PeopleSoft ...

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Contact Us

Contact UsA method by which customers and unregistered guest users send email messages to specificaddresses or members of the merchant’s organization. Merchants can also define automaticresponse message ...

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Container

ContainerAn Inventory stock unit for receiving, putaway, bin to bin transfers, picking, shipping,adjustments, and physical accounting. Each container is associated with a unique containerI ...

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Content Reference

Content ReferenceContent references are pointers to some kind of content registered in the portal registry. Theseare typically either URLs or iScripts. Content references fall into three broad categories:target content, templates, and template pagelet ...

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Constraint

ConstraintA limit to a schedule, that, when violated, must be repaired to produce a valid schedule. UserconfigurablePlanning constraints include Missed Request Dates, Missed Promise Dates, BIShortages, RM Shortages, Capacity Overloads, Missed Inventory Targets, Changeovers, andExcess Inventor ...

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Constraints

ConstraintsIn the PeopleSoft Enterprise Warehouse, a constraint can consist of one or more filters and isused to define complex business logic. Constraints are based on DataMaps.&nbs ...

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Consumption Pattern

Consumption PatternIn PeopleSoft Activity-Based Management, an attribute used to describe how an activityinteracts with the cost objects to which it has been assigned. A unit type activity can expect tobe performed on a regular basis so that each time a product is produced. A batch type activitymay only be performed periodically for a given range of transactions. For example, each timea machine is setup to produce another ...

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Consolidated Bill

Consolidated BillA grouping of bills gathered together for invoice presentation. The bills belonging to aconsolidated bill are invoiced and printed together, with a page summarizing the bills as agrou ...

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Consolidations

ConsolidationsThe PeopleSoft Pension Administration functions that accumulate hours, earnings, andpension contributions based on payroll dat ...

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Consolidations-Elimination Set

Consolidations-Elimination SetA related group of intercompany accounts that is processed during consolidations. Onceeliminated, this group of accounts should normally net to zer ...

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Configuration parameter catalog

Configuration parameter catalogUsed to configure an external system with PeopleSoft. For example, it might set upconfiguration and communication parameters for an external serve ...

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Consolidate Assets

Consolidate AssetsIn PeopleSoft Asset Management, the process of consolidating multiple load lines, usuallycoming from a separate application, into one asse ...

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Consolidate Depreciation

Consolidate DepreciationIn PeopleSoft Asset Management, the process of summing all open Add and Adj transactionsby transaction type, Transaction Date, and accounting date for all composite membersreporting to one composite asse ...

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Concurrent Offerings

Concurrent OfferingsMultiple stock purchase offerings that are active and outstanding at the same time. The enddate is measured from the employee’s grant dat ...

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Concurrent Processing

Concurrent ProcessingThe situation in which you run multiple batch processes at a time. In PeopleSoft BenefitsAdministration, for example, simultaneous open enrollment and event maintenance qualifiesas concurrent processin ...

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Configuration Code

Configuration CodeA unique 50-character identification code that accurately tracks and costs inventory with thePeopleSoft Product Configurator. It corresponds to a lot number for a non-configured ite ...

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Configuration Costing

Configuration CostingThe overall process of reviewing and evaluating anticipated cost data for a configured ite ...

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Competitive Appointment

Competitive AppointmentAn appointment to a position in the competitive service following open competitiveexamination or under direct-hire authority. The competitive examination, that is open to allapplicants, may consist of a written test, an evaluation of an applicant's education andexperience, and/or an evaluation of other attributes necessary for successful performance inthe position to be fille ...

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Competitive Service

Competitive ServiceAll positions as defined by 5 USC 2102 in the executive branch of the Federal Governmentare in the competitive service unless they are specifically excluded from it. Positions in thelegislative and judicial branches are outside of the competitive service unless they arespecifically include ...

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Compress

CompressThe act of placing a Planning task as early as possible in the schedule without violating anyconstraint ...

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Compressed Split

Compressed SplitIn PeopleSoft Demand Planning, an optional function that allows a split database to becompressed so it can be transferred to an account manager’s compute ...

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Competency Strategy

Competency StrategyThe type and number of roles, tasks, competencies and accomplishments essential toaccomplishing a business scenario based on your strategic business goal ...

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Compensation

CompensationThe process by which a worker is remunerated for services rendered to, or work performed onbehalf of a business entit ...

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Compensation Package

Compensation PackageAll of the base and non-base components on a job ro ...

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Compensation Rules

Compensation RulesBusiness methodology or logical process that is applied to reported time in order to determinepayable time (see Time Administration).CompetencyIn PeopleSoft Workforce Analytics, Competency is a knowledge, ability, skill,accomplishment, or National Vocational Qualification (N ...

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Competency Inventory

 Competency InventoryAll of the roles, tasks, competencies and accomplishments possessed by the workers in thecurrent workforce. This data is migrated from internal source systems into the data warehousetables of the PeopleSoft Enterprise Warehous ...

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Compensation Frequency

Compensation FrequencyIn PeopleSoft Workforce Analytics, this is the frequency at which a job is paid. This is thevalue you use for reporting or quoting pay. Examples include Annually, Monthly andWeekl ...

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Compensation Planning

Compensation PlanningIn PeopleSoft Workforce Analytics, this is the process through which employee compensationplans are defined, and compensation budgets are allocated throughout an organization. Majorcomponents of compensation planning include designing pay structures, setting individual paylevels, and budgeting and forecasting compensation spendin ...

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Compensation Rate

Compensation RateIn PeopleSoft Workforce Analytics, this is the compensation rate for a job. This is the rate thecompany uses for quoting and reporting pa ...

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Comp time (compensatory time)

Comp time (compensatory time)A PeopleSoft Time and Labor-managed employee benefit where time off is granted inexchange for time worked based on customer-defined criteria; is associated with an expirationand is used as reported time (see Attendance ...

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Commission Tax Method

Commission Tax MethodA payroll tax calculation method that adds year-to-date earnings to earnings for this payperiod and finds the annualized gross by multiplying by the number of pay periods in the year;the gross is then divided by the number of tax periods specified on the paysheet. This methodis used for Canadian processing onl ...

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Commitment Control

Commitment ControlCommitment control includes budget control and commitment accounting functionalit ...