UW-Madison will not implement the new system until fiscal year 2002 or later. UW-Milwaukee was also involved in prototyping the AP and PO modules and UW Colleges the PO module for implementation on July 1, 1999. The primary responsibility for the UW-Extension implementation of the GL, AP, and PO modules has also been assigned to Business Services staff in Accounting Services, Extramural Support, and Purchasing. In SFS the individual fields in the accounting structure are called chartfields. The chartfields in SFS are essentially the same as the accounting codes used in the legacy system.
New terminology is used for some of the chartfields.
Some of the legacy system object class codes have been combined into one SFS Account code. If more detailed tracking is needed, a new field called Sub Classification can be used at the discretion of each institution. Initially, this new field will have limited use. There were a significant number of changes to the legacy class codes to convert them to SFS account codes. These groups will focus on updating existing code definitions and preparing expanded definitions for the new codes resulting from the combining of multiple legacy class codes.