Event Category

Various accounting events in a financial application lend themselves to certain groupings such as Disbursements, Procurement, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and so forth. These groupings often have a purpose other than just reporting or classification. Each is slightly different in the form of debits and credits that will be produced. For instance, procurement will usually just record an account such as Encumbrances with an offset to Reserve for Encumbrances. However, a disbursement can record a Cash Expenditure with loss of Cash, an Intercept Payable with Intercepted Cash, and a Fixed Asset along with an offset. In addition to controlling posting logic, event categories provide specific edits, default account inference logic, and the ability to define rules at a level higher than event type.

What postings actually occur is dependent upon the Event Type Processor used, and that is determined by the Event Category used. While there are many Event Type Processors for different functional areas, there is a single generic processor that handles simple accounting events where only a single pair of debits and credits are posted. Additional event categories can be added to the application, but they will use the generic event type processor by default.

Fields on the Event Category (ECAT) are as follows, with common fields omitted:

Field Name	Field Description
Event Category	A unique identifier assigned to an event category that is used by the application to call a specific event type processor when applicable.
Post Pair A to P	Each of the 16 posting pairs available contains a text field for assigning a name to the pair that will be visible when establishing an event type for easy reference. The names only give a description to a posting pair. What is actually recorded in a pair is up to the specific event type processor and requires a technical effort to change a pair, remove a pair, or add a pair.
Reversal	When one accounting line references another with a reference type of Partial, Final, or Inverse, if this indication is true for the event category of the event type used on the referenced transaction, a liquidation posting line will be created by the referencing transaction.
Fixed Asset Cost	When the Fixed Asset Shell Generation Process runs to create fixed asset transaction shells for manual completion, this indication is used to determine which of the posting lines on the disbursement should comprise the total amount for an asset accounting line.
Debt History	When this indication is true, the posting lines for the posting pair will update the respective Debt History page (Loan, Lease, or Bond) when a Debt ID is present. For event categories where more than one posting pair is used for debt accounting the Debt History indications for those posting pairs should be reviewed. Some may want both postings for 2-party accounting to update the history so both can be viewed as a zero-sum impact while some may only want an update from the borrower. The same is true for accounting where two postings are made for the same amount. Some may want to see both updates while others only want one so the update does not appear doubled.

Event category names can be adjusted for reporting needs, but the ID values should not be changed unless they use the generic processor. If new categories are created, they should begin with an X to ensure that future delivered categories do not conflict with custom categories.

The following table contains those event type categories in alphabetical order by Event Category ID delivered along with the Event Type Processor used.

ID	Name	Processor
ABUD	Activate a Budget Line	n/a
ACC	Establish Accrual	Generic
ACCA	Automated Accruals	Generic
ACL	Manual Accrual Clearing	Manual Accrual Clearing
ACLA	Automated Clearing	Automated Accrual Clearing
ACD	Accrual Disallowance	Generic
ACT	Accounting	Generic
ADIS	Automatic Disb	Disbursements
AP	Accounts Payable	Accounts Payable
CA	Cost Accounting	Generic
DBUD	Delete a Budget Line	n/a
DEP	Deposits	Accounts Receivable
DNO1	Double Non-Offset Posting Codes That Reverse	Double Non Offset
DNO2	Double Non-Offset Posting Codes That Do Not Reverse	Double Non Offset
DRCL	Disbursement Cancellation	Disbursement Reclassification
EBTN	Expense Budget Transfers In	n/a
EBTO	Expense Budget Transfers Out	n/a
EXB	Expense Budget	n/a
FA	Acquisition	Fixed Assets
FAIS	Fixed Asset Internal Sale	Fixed Assets
FAIT	Fixed Asset Inter Fund Transfer	Fixed Assets
FAUP	Fixed Asset Unpend	Fixed Assets
FB	Betterment	Fixed Assets
FC	Cancellation	Fixed Assets
FD	Disposition	Fixed Assets
FE	Indiv Depr Exp	Fixed Assets
FI	Mod Value	Fixed Assets
FIA	Internal Acquisition	Fixed Assets
FIB	Internal Betterment	Fixed Assets
FIS	Fixed Asset Increase Value from Shell	Fixed Assets
FM	Mod Settings	Fixed Assets
FP	Mod Sales Price	Fixed Assets
FRM	Repair and Warr	Fixed Assets
FS	FA Internal Sale	Fixed Assets
FT	Transfer	Fixed Assets
FX	Type Change	Fixed Assets
HRA	Payroll Clearing Fund w/Cash	Payroll Clearing Fund
HRB	Payroll Clearing Fund w/Clearing Accounts	Payroll Clearing Fund
HRC	Payroll Generic	Generic
HRD	Payroll Disbursement	Payroll Disbursements
IA1	IA No Clearing Accounts	Inventory
IA2	IA With Clearing Accounts	Inventory
IA3	IA With No Clearing Accounts	Inventory
IBUD	Inactivate a Budget Line	n/a
ID1	Internal Debt Accounting	Internal Accounting
INV1	Investments 1	Generic
INV2	Investments 2	Investments
IP1	Inter Reim Cash	Internal Accounting
IP2	Inter Reim Due	Internal Accounting
IP3	Intra Reimb	Internal Accounting
IP4	Inter Cash Prch	Internal Accounting
IP5	Inter Due Purch	Internal Accounting
IP6	Intra Purchase	Internal Accounting
IP7	Int Reim Prch Csh	Internal Accounting
IP8	Int Reim Prch Clr	Internal Accounting
IP9	Int QET Prch Csh	Internal Accounting
IP10	Int QET Prch Clr	Internal Accounting
IT1	Int Cash Trans	Internal Accounting
IT2	Int Due Trans	Internal Accounting
IT3	Int Internal External	Internal Accounting
IZ1	Cross Agency Trans	Internal Accounting
IZ2	BSA Transfer	Internal Accounting
IZ3	Cross Agency Trans Revenue	Internal Accounting
IZ4	BSA Revenue Transfer	Internal Accounting
IZ5	BSA Expense Transfer	Internal Accounting
MDIS	Manual Disb	Disbursements
ME	Mass Depr Exp	Fixed Assets
OT1	Oper Cash Trans	Internal Accounting
OT2	Oper Due Trans	Internal Accounting
OT3	Cash Loan	Internal Accounting
OVP	Overpayment	Generic
PR	Procurement	Generic
RBTN	Revenue Budget Transfers In	n/a
RBTO	Revenue Budget Transfers Out	n/a
REF	Vendor Refund	Accounts Receivable
REV	Revenue	Accounts Receivable
RTG	Retainage	Generic
RVB	Revenue Budget	n/a
SA	Stock Adjustment	Inventory
SFTR	Sweep Fund Transfer	Accounts Receivable
SI	Stock Issuance	Inventory
SIE	External Stock Issuance	Inventory
SN	Stock Return	Inventory
ST	Stock Transfer	Inventory
TRVL	Travel	Generic
WRCL	Warrant Clearing	Warrant Clearing