Short description of the transaction. Payment for purchases will indicate the vendor name, payment for payroll will indicate the employee's name. Reference number, a purchase order number, an abbreviated social security number, telephone number, print job number, bookstore DOI number or other reference. Second reference number to further clarify 10. above. Only budget entry amount appear in this column.
Negative amounts are reduction in the budget.
Amounts in budget pool 0100 are revenues and are normally a negative amount. This total is reflected in the FBM090 report as current month actual expenditures and revenues. Commitments are encumbrances which have been liquidated and they carry a negative sign. Batch ref and date are indicators which help accounting personnel to locate the original entries in the FRS records. PERA Public Employees Retirement Assn.