USC Acronyms

See glossary of KUALI terms

AD: Active Directory

ADR: Alumni Development Records

AIS: Administrative Information System

Annenberg: Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

ASR: Account Summary Report

BA: Business Analyst

Bank Recs: Bank Reconciliations Department

BDS: Budget Development System

BI: Business Intelligence

CAL: Carol Little Building (3434 Grand)

CAPS: Career and Protective Services

COA: Chart of Accounts

College: College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (aka LAS)

DDVP: Deans, Directors, and Vice Presidents

DR: Disaster Recovery

ESD: Enrollment Service Division

FAMIS: Facilities Administrative Management Information System

FBS: Financial and Business Services

FMS: Facilities Management Services

FSMS: Faculty Salary Management System

GL: General Ledger (part of the Financial System)

HDC: Home Department Coordinator

HPCC: High Performance Computing Center

HSC: Health Science Campus

ICT: Institute for Creative Technologies (aka Center for Creative Technology)

ISI: Information Sciences Institute

ITS: Information Technology Services

JV: Journal Voucher

Keck: Keck School of Medicine (aka KSOM)

KEW: Kuali Enterprise Workflow

KFS: Kuali Financial System

KIM: Kuali Identity Management (see also RICE)

KSOM: Keck School of Medicine (aka Keck)

LAS: old name for the College (aka College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences)

Leventhal: Leventhal School of Accounting

Marshall: Marshall School of Business

Norris: Norris Cancer Research Hospital (on Health Science campus)

OBP: Office of Budget and Planning

Ostrow: Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry

OTIS: Online Timekeeping System

PI: Principal Investigator

PPD: School of Policy, Planning, and Development (aka SPPD)

PURAP: Purchasing Account Payable (Kuali)

RA: Research Administrator

RFA: Restricted Fund Accounting

Roski: Roski School of Fine Arts

Rossier: Rossier School of Education

RVJ: Robert Vaughn Johnson

SBO: Senior Business Officer

SIS: Student Information System

SPA: Sponsored Project Accounting

SPPD: School of Policy, Planning and Development (PPD)

SVP: Senior Vice President

TBO: The Budget Online

Thornton: Thornton School of Music

UGB: University Gardens Building

UPC: University Park Campus

USC-ID: 10-digit unique number assigned to all USC students and employees

VC: Video Conferencing

VCR: Vendor Contract Review

Viterbi: Viterbi School of Education

VPN: Virtual Private Network

WEBBA: Web Budget Administration