## APPENDIX B: ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

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**RFMS**

**LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS**

**4GL** Fourth Generation Language

**AAR** Audit Adjustment Report

**ACA** Administrative Cost Allowance

**ACC** Account Classification Codes

**ACH** Automated Clearing House

**ACS** **GSG** Affiliated Computer Services, Government Solutions Group

**ACSO** ADP Computer Security Officer

**ADE** Automated Date Exchange

**ADP** Automated Data Processing

**AFMS** Accounting and Financial Management Service

**AIS** Automated Information System

**APPSD** Application and Pell Processing Systems Division

**ATM** Asynchronous Transfer Mode

**CCF** Central Computer Facility

**CCG** Configuration Control group

**CDR** Critical Design Review

**CI** Configuration Item

**CIT** Continuous Improvement Team

**CM** Configuration Management

**CMIA** Cash Management Improvement Act

**CMM** Capability Maturity Model

**CMS** ACS's Cash Management System

**CMS** ED=s Configuration Management System

**CO** Contracting Officer

**COA** Cost of Attendance

**COTR** Contracting Officer=s Technical Representative

**COTS** Commercial-Off-The-Shelf

**CPM** Critical Path Method

**CPS** Central Processing System

**CR** Credit

**CRS** Central Registry System

**CSA** Configuration Status Accounting

### CSF Critical Success Factor

**CSO** Computer Security Officer

**CUA** Common User Access

**CW-S** College Work Study Program

**DAR** Decrease Award Report

**DBI** Data Base, Inc.

**DBMS** Data Base Management System

**DDL** Data Definition Language

**DISB.** Disbursement

**DLS** Direct Loan System

**DMCS** ACS=s Debt Management and Collection System

**DMS** Data Management Services

**DOS** Disk Operating System

**DPAR** Data Processing Action Request

**DRD** Data Requirements Document

**DRP** Disaster Recovery Plan

**DUNS** Data Universal Numbering Scheme

**EASI** Project Easy Access for Students and Institutions

**EBT** Electronic Benefits Transfer

**ECAR** Electronic Correction to Applicant Record

**ED/PMS** ED Payment Management System

**ED** U.S. Department of Education

**EDCAPS** ED Central Applications Processing Systems

**ED/CCF** ED Central Computer Facility

**ED/PAS** ED Primary Accounting System

**EDCAPS** ED Centralized Applications Processing System

**EDE** Electronic Data Exchange

**EDI** Electronic Data Interchange

**EDLAN** ED Local Area Network

**EDP** Electronic Data Processing

**EFC** Expected Family Contribution

**EIDS** Executive Information and Decision-making Subsystem

**EIS** Executive Information System

**EOG** Educational Opportunity Grant

**EOY** End of Year

**EPPD** Electronic Pell Payment Data (prior to 1999-2000)

**EPPPD** Electronic Processed Pell Payment Data (prior to 1999-2000)

**ESOA** Electronic Statements of Account

**EYTD** Electronic Year-To-Date

**FAA** Financial Aid Administrator

#### FAFSA Free Application for Federal Student Aid

**FFELP** Federal Family Education Loan

**FIFO** First-In-First-Out (Accounting Method)

**FIPS** Federal Information Processing Standards

**FMSS** Financial Management Systems Software

**FRC** Federal Records Center

**FRD** Functional Requirements Document

**GAO** General Accounting Office

**GAPS** Grant Administration and Payment System

**GEIS** General Electronic Information System

**GL** General Ledger

**GOSIP** Government Open Systems Interface Protocol

**GSL** Guaranteed Student Loan

**GUI** Graphical User Interface

**HEA** Higher Education Act

#### IAS Institutional Access System

**ICR** Internal Control Review

**IEM** Information Engineering Methodology

**IFMD** Institutional Financial Management Division

**IOC** Initial Operating Capability

**IPR** Institution Payment Record

**IPS** Institutional Payment Summary

**IPOS** Institutional Participant and Oversite Service

**IQCU** Independent Quality Control Unit

**IRG** Information Resources Group

**ISAMS** Integrated Student Aid Management System

**ISIR** Individual Student Information Record

**JAD** Joint Application Design

**JIT** Just In Time Funding

**JRP** Joint Requirements Planning

**LOS** Loan Origination Subsystem

**MDE** Multiple Data Entry

**MIS** Management Information System

**MISAA** Middle Income Student Assistance Act

**MR** Multiple Reporting

**MRR** Multiple Reporting Record

**MRTS** Material Request and Tracking System

**NDSL** National Defense Student Loan Program

**NSLDS** National Student Loan Data System

**OCFO** Office of the Chief Financial Officer

**OIG** Office of Inspector General

**OLAP** Online Analytical Programs

**OLE** Object Linking and Embedding

**OPE** Office of Postsecondary Education

**OPEIDS** OPE Institutional Data System

**ORACLE** Oracle® Financials Database

**ORIG.** Origination

**OSFAP** Office of Student Financial Assistance Programs

**PAD** Process Action Diagram

**PAS** Primary Accounting System

**PDF** Portable Document Format

**PDR** Preliminary Design Review

**PEPS** Postsecondary Education Participants System

**PFOB** Pell Financial Operations Branch

**PGRFMS** Pell Grant Recipient and Financial Management System

**PHD** Process Hierarchy Diagram

**PIC** Public Inquiry Contractor

**PM** Payment Method

#### POP Potential Overaward Project

**PPD** Pell Payment Data (Prior to 1999-2000)

**PPV** Processed Payment Voucher

**PRAD** Procedure Action Diagram

**PRB** Publication Review Board

**PSS** Program Systems Service

**QA** Quality Assurance

**QC** Quality Control

**QCE** ACS-GSG's Quality Center of Expertise

**RACF** Resource Access Control Facility

**RAD** Rapid Application Development

**RDE** Recipient Data Exchange

**RDBMS** Relational Data Base Management System

**RFMS** Recipient and Financial Management System

**RS** Registry System

**SAOT** Student Aid Origination Team

**SAR** Student Aid Report

**SAT** Systems Approach to Training

**SDMCE** ACS-GSG=s Software Development Methodology Center of Expertise

**SDT** System Development Tasks

**SEOG** Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant

**SFAP** Student Financial Assistance Programs

**SOA** Statements of Account

#### SOW Statement of Work

**SPS** Student Payment Summary

**SQA** Software Quality Assurance

#### SQL System Query Language

**SSN** Social Security Number

**SSIG** State Student Incentive Grant Program

**TIVWAN** Title IV Wide Area Network

**TSS** Testing Support system

**UniKix** A CICS emulator for UNIX systems

**VDC** Virtual Data Center

**VSAM** Virtual Storage Access Method

**WAN** Wide Area Network

**WWW** World Wide Web

**YTD** Year-to-Date

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