Houser’s Accounting Codes 05-27-08

119000 - Recoveries

119900 - Intra-Agency Recoveries for Personal Services:  Recovery of the cost of personal services incurred by programs or subprograms within the same agency or agencies under the auspices of a single board or commission within the same fiscal year. Do Not include recoveries from Auxiliary Enterprise subprograms and the JMU Foundation.

119940 - Intra-Agency Recoveries for Personal Services: Include recoveries of the cost of personal services from the JMU Foundation.

121100 - Express Services:  Include expenses for premium services provided for express or urgent deliveries of printed matter, goods, and commodities by common or contract carrier or hired vehicles. Examples of services include Overnight AM, Overnight PM, Next Day, Second Day, etc. (e-VA exclusion 14)

121110 - Outbound Freight Services:  Include expenses for package delivery and freight services provided by common or contract carriers or hired vehicles for the outbound movement of commodities.

121200 - Media Services:  Include expenses for services provided to advertise by magazine, newspaper, periodical, radio, television, or other media. Exclude expenses chargeable to 124600. (e-VA exclusion 8)

121300 -Messenger Services:  Include expenses for services provided to distribute messages and packages by private or state courier services. Services of this type tend to be restricted to a local or small geographical delivery zone.

121400 - Postal Services:  Include expenses for services provided to distribute printed matter by the United States Postal Service, e.g., stamps, stamped envelopes, postage meters, and permit fees. Exclude expenses chargeable to 121100, 121110, 121300, 121410, 121420, and 121900.

121500 - Printing Services:  Include expenses for services provided by state agencies and the private sector for designing, printing, collating, and binding. (Also, photocopies, brochures, printed letters). – Use this code for business cards

121520 - Copyright Costs:  Include expenses for copyright costs related to reproduction of copyright material.

121700 - Telecommunications Services (provided by Non-State vendor):  Include expenses for services that provide for cables, facsimile-transmissions, local and long distance voice, video, and data connections including telephone service, telegram transmission, teletype transmission, and similar telecommunications services provided by the private sector.

121800 - Telecommunications Services (provided by another State agency):  Include expenses for services that provide for cables, facsimile-transmission, local and long distance voice, video, and data connections including telephone service, telegram transmission, teletype transmission, and similar telecommunications services provided by state agencies other than DIT.

121900 - Inbound Freight Services:  Include expenses for packaged delivery and freight services provided by common or contract carriers or hired vehicles for the inbound movement of commodities. Use this category whenever shipping costs are listed as a separate line item on vendor invoices for goods or materials.

122100 - Organization Memberships:  Include expenses for memberships to professional organizations. (Also, notary commissions). (e-VA exclusion 3)

122200 - Publication Subscriptions:  Include expenses for subscriptions to professional or technical publications used for professional development, not purchased for general library use. For related expenses, see 222100 and 222400.

122400 - Employee Training Courses, Workshops and Conferences:  Include costs, such as registration fees and materials for attending training courses, workshops, and conferences. Do not include expenses for information technology training; see account code 122800. (For other related costs see 122700)  (e-VA exclusion 2)

122500 - Employee Tuition Reimbursement:  Include reimbursement to state employees for courses taken and satisfactorily completed.

122600 - Employee Training Consulting Services:  Include all expenditures paid to bring professional training consultants to the agency for employee development, including expenses for course development, delivery, administration, or evaluation.

122700 - Employee Training - Transportation, Lodging, Meals and Incidentals:  Include costs for airfare, taxis, tolls, lodging, meals and personal vehicle mileage reimbursement, associated with employee training and development coded as 122400, 122500, or 122600. (e-VA exclusion 2)

122800 - Employee Information Technology (IT) Training Courses, Workshops, and Conferences:  Includes expenditures such as registration fees and materials for attending training courses, workshops, and conferences on information technology. For related expenditures see 122700. (e-VA exclusion 2)

124600 - Public Informational and Public Relations Services:  Include expenses for services provided by private sector advertising, promotional, public relations, and similar firms which prepare and disseminate information. Exclude expenses chargeable to 121200. (Also, royalties, game guarantees, music contracts, visiting artist).

124700 - Legal Services:  Include expenses for court reporters, hearing examiners, miscellaneous court costs, recording fees, notary fees and services, and legal services other than attorney fees.

124900 - Recruitment Advertising:  Include payments for advertising in newspapers, magazines, radio, or other media as part of the employment recruitment process.

125000 - Repair and Maintenance Services

Includes expenditures for custodial services; repair and maintenance of equipment, mechanical, vehicles, physical plant, and highways; extermination/vector control services; and reclamation services that are under contract.

125100 - Custodial Services:  Include expenses for services provided to clean, maintain, and protect buildings, grounds, shelters, and towers.

125120 - Custodial Services, Internal:  Include expenses for services provided by Facilities Management Operations staff to clean, maintain and protect buildings, grounds, shelters and towers.

125200 - Electrical Repair and Maintenance Services:  Include expenses for services provided to repair and maintain electrical systems (including network cabling) in buildings, shelters, towers, and on grounds.

125300 - Equipment Repair and Maintenance Services:  Include expenses for services provided to repair and maintain calculators, furniture, typewriters and other equipment. Include expenses for maintenance contracts. For related expenses, see 125600 and 125900.

125700 - Plant Repair and Maintenance Services:  Include expenses for carpentry, minor masonry, painting, and other services provided to repair and maintain plant facilities. For related expenses, see 125200 and 125600.

125710 - Plant Repair and Maintenance Services, Internal:  Include expenses for services provided by Facilities Management Operations staff for carpentry, minor masonry, painting and other services provided to repair and maintain plant facilities.

equipment, construction equipment, motor vehicle equipment, watercraft equipment, and other vehicular equipment. (Also, towing services.)

127000 - Technical Services

Includes expenditures for information technology (IT) related services such as systems design and development, hardware maintenance, software maintenance, packaged software acquisition and maintenance, and operations.

127400 - Computer Hardware Maintenance Services:  Include expenses for services to repair and maintain computer and computer peripheral hardware.

127500 - Computer Software Maintenance Services:  Include expenses for services provided to maintain computer software.

127900 - Computer Software Development Services:  Include expenses for consulting services to custom develop software or modify or customize existing software for Commercial off the Shelf Software (COTS). See also 221800 for software purchases (and a definition of software) and 221900 for development tool purchases.

127940 - Computer Software Costs, Departmental:  Include expenses for the purchase of package or tailor-made application software, systems software and utility programs for departmental computers. FOR USE BY INTEGRATED LEARNING RESOURCES ONLY.

128000 - Transportation Services

Includes expenditures for moving and relocation services, personal vehicle travel, public carrier travel, state vehicle travel, subsistence and lodging, and travel supplements and aid.

128100 - Moving and Relocation Services:  Include expenses for services provided for relocating an employee's family and household, incidental to a new place of employment. Use this code, also, for the expenses of a newly employed person when appropriately approved or in conjunction with the Uniform Relocation Act. Include expenses for travel mileage, fares, meals, lodging, transportation, and storage of household goods, temporary living allowance, search for a new residence, sale of former residence, and related authorized miscellaneous allowances. For related expenses, see 121100.

128200 - Travel, Personal Vehicle:  Include expenses for transportation by personal vehicle. Exclude parking fees and tolls. Travel costs associated with attending training courses should be charged to 122700.

128210 - Travel, Personal Vehicle - Recruiting:  Include expenses for transportation by personal vehicle for recruiting. Exclude parking fees and tolls. Travel costs associated with attending training courses should be charged to 122700.

128220 - Travel, Personal Vehicle - Team:  Include expenses for transportation by personal vehicle for team travel. Exclude parking fees and tolls. Travel costs associated with attending training courses should be charged to 122700.

128300 - Travel, Public Carriers:  Include expenses for individual travel by aircraft (state and private sector), airport limousine, bus, leased vehicle, taxi, train, and watercraft. Include parking fees and tolls. Travel costs associated with attending training courses should be charged to 122700. (Also gasoline reimbursement for rental cars).

128310 - Travel, Public Carriers - Recruiting:  Include expenses for individual travel by aircraft (state and private sector), airport limousine, bus, leased vehicle, taxi, train, and watercraft for recruiting. Include parking fees and tolls. Travel costs associated with attending training courses should be charged to 122700. (Also gasoline reimbursement for rental cars).

128320 - Travel, Public Carriers - Team:  Include expenses for individual travel by aircraft (state and private sector), airport limousine, bus, leased vehicle, taxi, train, and watercraft for team travel. Include parking fees and tolls. Travel costs associated with attending training courses should be charged to 122700. (Also gasoline reimbursement for rental cars).

128400 - Travel, State Owned or Leased Vehicles:  Include expenses for transportation by state vehicles such as the Commonwealth's centralized fleet of vehicles managed by the DGS, Office of Fleet Management Services. Exclude parking fees and tolls. Travel cost associated with attending training courses should be charged to 122700.

128410 - Travel, State Vehicles - Recruiting:  Include expenses for transportation by state vehicles for recruiting. Exclude parking fees and tolls. Travel costs associated with attending training courses should be charged to 122700.

128420 - Travel, State Vehicles - Team:  Include expenses for transportation by state vehicles for team travel. Exclude parking fees and tolls. Travel costs associated with attending training courses should be charged to 122700.

128500 - Travel, Subsistence and Lodging:  Include expenses for gratuities, lodging, and similar subsistence and for parking fees and tolls related to 128200 and 128400.  Travel costs associated with attending training courses should be charged to 122700. (Also, entry fees, game admissions).

128510 - Travel, Subsistence and Lodging - Recruiting:  Include expenses for gratuities, lodging, and similar subsistence for recruiting. Also, for parking fees and tolls related to 128200 and 128400.  Travel costs associated with attending training courses should be charged to 122700. (Also, entry fees, game admissions).

128520 - Travel, Subsistence and Lodging - Team:  Include expenses for gratuities, lodging, and similar subsistence for team travel. Also, for parking fees and tolls related to 128200 and 128400.  Travel costs associated with attending training courses should be charged to 122700. (Also, entry fees, game admissions).

128800 - Travel, Meal Reimbursements - Not Reportable to the IRS:  Include reimbursements for meal expenses which were incurred during trips which required overnight lodging or rest or for special work assignments, such as business luncheons, recruiting or interviewing job applicants through the lunch hour, or any overtime work in which a meal is purchased by an employee and is eaten on the employer's premises for the convenience of the employer.  (Meals which are part of a training or education package and are not reportable to the IRS should be charged to account code 122700). For meals that meet these criteria where overnight travel is not involved, the Business Meal Certification for Non-Overnight Travel form should be completed and submitted according to the instructions in Section 4215, "Travel," Subsection .930.) Also include team travel, including coaches' meals, in this code.)

128810 - Travel, Meal Reimbursements - Not Reportable to the IRS - Recruiting:  Include reimbursements for meal expenses which were incurred during trips which required overnight lodging or rest or for special work assignments, such as business luncheons, recruiting or interviewing job applicants through the lunch hour, or any overtime work in which a meal is purchased by an employee and is eaten on the employer's premises for the convenience of the employer.  (Meals which are part of a training or education package and are not reportable to the IRS should be charged to account code 122700). For meals that meet these criteria where overnight travel is not involved, the Business Meal Certification for Non-Overnight Travel form should be completed and submitted according to the instructions in Section 4215, "Travel," Subsection .930.) Also include team travel, including coaches' meals, in this code.)

129000 - Recoveries and Late Payment Penalties for Contractual Services

Includes recoveries of expenditures and late payment penalty expenditures for communication services, employee development services, health services, management and informational services, repair and maintenance services, support services, technical services, and transportation services.

129600 - Indirect Cost Recoveries from Auxiliary Programs for Contractual Services:  Include only the required recovery of indirect costs of contractual services from Auxiliary Enterprise subprograms.

129610 - Recovery - Auxiliary Expenditures:  Recovery of costs incurred by Auxiliary Enterprises for travel expenses.

129700 - Late Payment Penalties for Contractual Services:  Include expenses for charges assessed by vendors for the late payment of invoices for contractual services pursuant to the Prompt Payment Act.

129800 - Inter-Agency Recoveries for Contractual Services:  Recovery of the cost of contractual services incurred by programs or subprograms for services provided to other agencies.

129900 - Intra-Agency Recoveries for Contractual Services:  Recovery of the cost of contractual services incurred by programs or subprograms within the same agency or agencies under the auspices of a single board or commission. Do Not include recoveries from Auxiliary Enterprise subprograms and the JMU Foundation.

129940 - Intra-Agency Recoveries for Contractual Services:  Include recovery of the cost of contractual services from the JMU Foundation

129960 - Recovery - E & G Expenditures:  Recovery of costs incurred by Educational and General programs for expenditures associated with travel.

130000 - SUPPLIES AND MATERIALS

Includes expenditures for administrative supplies, energy supplies, manufacturing and merchandising supplies, medical and laboratory supplies, repair and maintenance supplies, residential supplies, and specified use supplies.

131000 - Administrative Supplies

Includes expenses for apparel supplies, office supplies, and stationery and forms.

131100 - Apparel Supplies:  Include expenses for uniforms, protective gear, and similar apparel items for state employees who are furnished apparel by the state.

131200 - Office Supplies:  Include expenses for binders, clips, file folders, ribbons (all types), small batteries, tape (all types), writing utensils, and similar office items. (Also, copy toner, dividers, and indexes. See code 226300).

131210 - Office Supplies, Mailing:  Include expenses for padded envelopes, mailing tape, labels, and similar items used for mailing.

131300 - Stationery and Forms:  Include expenses for carbon paper, employment application forms, ledger sheets, letter sheets, mailing envelopes, other informational and record forms, other paper, and similar stationery items. (Also, labels, copy machine paper).

135000 - Repair and Maintenance Supplies

Includes expenses for building repair and maintenance materials, custodial repair and maintenance supplies, electrical repair and maintenance supplies, mechanical repair and maintenance supplies, and vehicular repair and maintenance supplies.

135100 - Building Repair and Maintenance Materials:  Include expenses for bricks, cement, concrete, lumber, mortar, pitch, plasterboard, tar, and similar materials not included in the cost of work performed under contract in the repair and maintenance of structures.

135200 - Custodial Repair and Maintenance Materials:  Include expenses for brushes, brooms, chemicals for air conditioning, cleaning preparations, disinfectants, electric bulbs, fluorescent tubes, pesticides, toilet tissue, waxes, water purification and treatment and similar custodial repair and maintenance materials. (Also, soap, trash bags).

135300 - Electrical Repair and Maintenance Materials:  Include expenses for circuit breakers, circuits, electrical tape, fuses, plugs, tubes, wiring, and similar electrical repair and maintenance materials not included in the cost of the work performed under contract.

135400 - Mechanical Repair and Maintenance Materials:  Include expenses for bolts, cable, gears, nuts, pipe, screws, solder, and similar mechanical repair and maintenance materials not included in the cost of work performed under contract.

136000 - Residential Supplies

Includes expenditures for food and dietary supplies, food service supplies, laundry and linen supplies and personal care supplies.

136200 - Food and Dietary Supplies:  Include expenses for items of food and drink.

136210 - Food/Dietary Supplies Transfers:  Include transfers of expenses for food and dietary supplies between dining services operations. FOR DINING SERVICES USE ONLY.

136300 - Food Service Supplies:  Include expenses for cutlery, dishes, glasses, paper cups, paper dishes, paper napkins, tablecloths, tableware, and similar food service supplies used in preparing, cooking, and serving food.

137000 - Specific Use Supplies

Includes expenditures for agricultural supplies, architectural and engineering supplies, computer operating supplies, educational supplies, fish and wildlife supplies, law enforcement supplies, photographic supplies, and recreational supplies.

137300 - Computer Operating Supplies:  Include expenses for paper, bar cards, disposable media (e.g., tapes and disks), and other computer operating supplies.

137400 - Educational Supplies:  Include expenses for blank audiotapes, blank phonograph records, blank videotapes, chalk, erasers, and similar educational supplies. (Also, sheet music, records, costumes and props for educational departments).

137700 - Photographic Supplies:  Include expenses for chemicals, film, digital media, and similar photographic supplies. (Also, laminating material. For film processing see 126700).

140000 - TRANSFER PAYMENTS

Includes expenditures for awards, contributions, and claims; educational and training assistance; grants and aid; and dedicated and general shared revenues.

141000 - Awards, Contributions, and Claims

Includes expenditures for income assistance payments, individual claims and settlements, interstate compacts and agreements, premiums, unemployment compensation awards, unemployment compensation reimbursements, and worker's compensation awards.

141300 - Premiums:  Include expenses for awards, honorariums, and prizes to individuals and organizations. (e-VA exclusion 6)

153000 - Operating Lease Payments

Includes expenditures for computer equipment operating lease payments, computer software operating lease payments, equipment operating lease payments, plant operating lease payments, and property operating lease payments. Use these codes when leases do not have the substance of purchases and ownership of the asset does not change hands.

153400 - Equipment Rentals:  Include expenses of a lessee for the operating leases of equipment. Exclude expenses chargeable to 153100 and 153200. (Also, film rental, ID machine).

153500 - Building Rentals:  Include expenses of a tenant for the use of a structure or part of a structure.

154000 - Service Charges

Includes expenditures for agency service charges, electrical service charges, refuse service charges, and water and sewer service charges.

154300 - Refuse Service Charges:  Include expenses for services to haul garbage, trash, and other refuse.

154600 - eVA Two Percent Fee:  Include expenditures for the eVA 2% transaction fee.

220000 - EQUIPMENT

Includes expenditures for computer, educational, cultural, electronic, photographic, medical, laboratory, motorized, office, specific use, and stationary equipment.

220900 - Small Purchase Charge Card Purchases of Equipment:  Include expenses made by charge card for purchasing equipment under the guidelines of the Small Purchase Charge Card Program. USE FOR RECORDING EXPENDITURES ONLY, NOT VALID FOR BUDGETING PURPOSES.

221000 - Computer Hardware and Software

Includes expenditures for computing platforms (mainframes to hand held),other equipment and software.

221100 - Desktop Client Computers (microcomputers):   Include any stationary desktop workstation, including desktops that have been provided by the agency for telecommuters. Include technologies typically used by individuals to enhance productivity. Examples include workstation setups (with all included components), and "thin clients." Shared computer setups like classroom systems, lab systems, and library systems are also included. Desktop Systems are stationary devices installed on a desk or workstation rather than mobile and highly transportable like a notebook or laptop.

"Thin client" is defined as a simple personal computer that is similar to a dumb terminal. The machine performs very little processing. Generally, most of the application processing is done on a network server.

221200 - Mobile Client Computers (microcomputers):   Include any mobile computer, usually referred to as a laptop or notebook, which includes laptops with docking stations and other peripheral devices. Also included in this category are handheld computer devices to include wireless.

221300 - inactive

221400 - Mainframe Computers and Components:  Includes all components and peripherals up to a network connection. Mainframe is an industry term for a large computer, typically manufactured by a large company such as IBM for the commercial applications of Fortune 1000 businesses and other large-scale computing purposes. Historically, a mainframe is associated with centralized rather than distributed computing.

221500 - Network Servers:  Includes computers designated by the manufacturer as servers, enterprise servers, server blade frames and components, network storage devices and systems, RAID devices, jukeboxes, etc. In general, a server accepts requests from network clients and performs single or multiple functions including file storage and retrieval, print message controls, application execution, email and communications.

221600 - Network Components:  Includes assets used in the local area network not reported in 221500 such as routers, switches, hubs, bridges, etc. This also includes cabling system components when not part of a state-owned building renovation or construction project.

221700 - Other Computer Equipment:  Includes all other equipment that cannot be reported in 221100 through 221600. Examples include printers, kiosks, print copiers, scanners, add-on peripherals for desktops or laptops, network interface cards, devices for reading bar codes, and devices for providing local and wide area connectivity (e.g., modems, codecs).

NOTE:  Code handheld wireless devices to 221200

221800 - Computer Software Purchases:  Include expenditures for the purchase of Commercial off the Shelf Software (COTS), to include applications, utility programs, and operation system software. The term software is a general term that refers to all programs or instructions that are used to operate computer hardware. Software causes computer hardware to perform activities by telling a computer how to execute functions and tasks. Code contracts for software development to 127900.

222000 - Educational and Cultural Equipment

Includes expenditures for college library books and educational, exhibiting, and reference equipment.

222100 - College Library Books:  Include expenses for books, microfiche, periodicals, and similar equipment used in libraries of institutions of higher education.

222200 - Educational Equipment:  Include expenses for auditorium seating, chalkboards, classroom furniture, and similar equipment. (Also, musical instruments).

222300 - Exhibit Equipment:  Include expenses for artifacts, artworks, scientific paraphernalia, and similar museum materials and equipment.

222400 - Reference Equipment:  Include expenses for books not used in libraries of institutions of higher education, card catalogs, carrels, library desks, microfilm readers, and similar reference equipment. (Also, films, records).

222800 - Educational and Cultural Equipment Improvements:  Include expenses for restorations of and additions or modifications to existing educational and cultural equipment that expands capability or capacity, or improves performance.

223000 - Electronic and Photographic Equipment

Includes expenditures for electronic, photographic, and voice and data transmission equipment.

223100 - Electronic Equipment:  Include expenses for intercommunication systems, radar, radios, televisions, and similar electronic equipment.

223200 - Photographic Equipment:  Include expenses for blueprint equipment, cameras, enlargers, lenses, overhead viewers, projectors, screens, splicers, tripods, and similar photographic equipment.

223300 - Voice and Data Transmission Equipment:  Include expenses for facsimile-transmitters, switchboards, telephones, teletypewriters, and similar equipment.

223800 - Electronic and Photographic Equipment Improvements:  Include expenses for restorations of and additions or modifications to existing communications and photographic equipment that expands capability or capacity, or improves performance.

226000 - Office Equipment

Includes expenditures for office appurtenances, office furniture, office incidentals, and office machines.

226100 - Office Appurtenances:  Include expenses for blinds, carpets, draperies, plants, rugs, shades, wall decorations, and similar office appurtenances.

226200 - Office Furniture:  Include expenses for bookcases, desks, chairs, file cabinets, lamps, racks, storage cabinets, tables, and similar office furniture.

226300 - Office Incidentals:  Include expenses for ashtrays, compasses, date stamps, desk organizers, file boxes, letter openers, rulers, scissors, staplers, T-squares, and similar "desktop" office equipment.

226400 - Office Machines:  Include expenses for adding machines, bookkeeping machines, calculators, drafting machines, duplicating and photocopying machines, posting machines, transcribing and dictating machines, typewriters, weight scales, and similar equipment.

226800 - Office Equipment Improvement:  Include expenses for restorations of and additions or modifications to existing office equipment that expands the capability or capacity, or improves performance. (Also, typing elements).