In FRS, accounts can represent departments, activities, Sponsored Programs, or capital projects. Each of the approximately 41,000 accounts must be examined and categorized accordingly. The term attribute is applied to the elements of descriptive data that are maintained as an integral part of each FRS Account within the FRS system. FRS has the capability of maintaining up to 1500 characters of attribute descriptive data. Attributes can be modified or added to at the user s discretion, with no impact to anyone posting other data such as budgets, receipts, disbursements, encumbrances, or journal entries.
Attributes define and track selected criteria for reporting purposes.
Many of the current attributes on FRS will be created as CU-specific attributes in the PeopleSoft General Ledger module to continue data analysis based on these attributes and to comply with internal and external reporting requirements.