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Last Updated: 2026-10-16
Reference: Journal Line Requirements for Processing Award Costs

Reference: Journal Line Requirements for Processing Award Costs

Enhanced Award Costs Processing (ACP) generates award costs (facilities and administration) only on ACP-eligible journal lines. To be eligible for award costs processing, the journal entry must meet these criteria.:

Ledger Requirements

The journal line must be from a ledger that:
  • Is a
    Primary Ledger
    .
  • Contains
    Ledger Type
    =
    Actuals
    .

Journal Line Details

The journal line must contain:
  • Journal Entry Status
    =
    Posted
    , unless the journal line is canceled or reversed, in which case the journal status can be empty.
  • Journal Line Type
    =
    Activity
    .
  • Budget or accounting date that falls within the award line date range.
  • No book code.
  • A spend category or pay component group that's mapped to an object class.
  • A grant worktag associated with an active award line.
  • A fund. To bill the sponsor the cost reimbursable spend lines, the fund must be funded by
    Sponsor
    .

Journal Sources

The journal source must be from 1 of these ACP-supported transactions:
Spend Type
General Financials & Spend
  • Accounting Adjustment
  • Accounting Journals (if the journal source is enabled for ACP)
  • Ad-hoc Bank Transaction
  • Ad-hoc Payment
  • Allocation
  • Allocation Pool
  • Expense Report
  • Funding Source Reclassification
  • Internal Service Delivery
  • Inventory (including Inventory Issue, Put-Away from a Return, and Inventory Shipment)
  • Manual Journal
  • Miscellaneous Payment Request
  • Procurement Card Transaction Verification
  • Supplier Invoice (including Supplier Invoice Adjustment, Retention Release, and Netting with Customer Invoice)
Payroll & Fringe Benefits
  • Payroll Accrual (for Payroll Results)
  • Fringe Benefit
  • Payroll Forward Accrual
  • Fringe Benefit Forward Accrual
  • Payroll Accounting Adjustment
  • Fringe Benefit Actuals Adjustment
  • Pay Accounting Reallocation
  • Fringe Benefit Reallocation
Student Financial Transactions
  • Student Waiver Disbursement
  • Financial Aid Disbursement

Specific Transaction Constraints

Transactions
Constraints
  • Accounting Adjustments
  • Ad Hoc Bank Transaction
Ledger Account Type must be marked as
Expense Source
unless the transaction has an appropriate spend category inherited from the journal it was created from.
  • Accounting Journals
  • Allocation Pools
  • Allocation Results
  • Funding Source Reclassifications
Ledger Account Type must be marked as
Expense Source
.
  • Fringe Benefit
  • Fringe Benefit Accounting Adjustment
  • Fringe Benefit Forward Accrual
  • Payroll Result
  • Payroll Forward Accrual
Fringe Benefit Reallocation, Payroll Accounting Adjustment, and Pay Accounting Reallocation are exempt from this restriction.
Account Posting Rule must be either:
  • Fringe Benefit Expense
  • Payroll Expense
  • Payroll Earnings
  • Student Financials
Account Posting Rule must NOT be either:
  • Student Unapplied On-Account Payments
  • Student Unapplied Recorded Payment.

Excluded Journal Lines

Enhanced ACP doesn't process journal lines from:
  • Alternate Currency Ledgers
  • Intercompany Parent Journals
  • Interworktag Payables
  • Interworktag Receivables
  • Retained Earnings