DM Useful Sites Page

Information useful in my job as administrator at UW

Arts and Sciences "factsheet" for use in preparation of grants and contracts (added 1/13/05, link updated 2/22/16)
Arts and Sciences pdf factsheet on Division of French and Italian Studies (link updated 10/16/15, added 10/7/07)
Budget Number Prefix Identifiers at UW. This table describes how the first two digits of a UW budget number, called elsewhere the "Local Program Code," indicate what kind of budget it is, what it is for, and who to contact about it. (link updated 4/12/16, added 10/30/08)
Controlling Access to UW Web Pages by UWNetID, password, groups, and internet address; and with SSL encrypted connections (added 11/28/07, links to a UW web publishing page 7/8/16)
Data Management in Admission and Records "...includes the SDB online code manual, the SDB screen manual, and an online request form for data extracts -- just to name a few features," said Kimberly Swayze in an email 10/11/02.
Employee Versus Independent Contractor Policy Statement includes how payment is made to individuals (added 7/11/02)
Euro symbol (€)
For Mac: shift-option-2
For Windows 2000, XP: Alt-0128
For HTML: (€, €) This last from from a UW IS 470 course page (link not found 7/8/16).
(added 1/26/04)
Excess compensation
Excess compensation is designed to pay faculty and professional staff for services provided outside normal duties. Typically it is for service performed on a one-time-only basis... from the Academic Human Resources guidelines site below
- Academic Human Resources excess compensation guidelines (link updated 7/8/16)
- Arts and Sciences policy and procedure (link updated 7/8/16)
- Payroll worksheet, for calculating amount of excess compensation to pay, is in OPUS, as described by Cheryl Manekia 7/11/16
- Step-by-step procedure from an old email message from Barbara Sackett in Arts and Sciences, with revised list of information to include in email.
(added 7/30/02)
Financial Reporting Codes listed and explained by UW Financial Reporting (all added 4/12/16)
- Budget Number Prefix Identifiers
- General Ledger Codes
- Object (Expense) Codes, Sub-Object Codes, and Sub-Sub-Object Code Explanation
  - See also Sales Tax Grid (added 6/30/16)
- Originating Area Table Information (Codes that show what unit started a transaction with a table that lists a contact person.)
- Revenue and Source Codes
- Transaction Codes including
  - MyFinancial.desktop Transaction Codes
Firefox
Firefox Profile allows one to move Firefox browser settings to a new computer (added 10/9/07)
GOF (general operating funds)
are allocations to units from State general funds and tuition.
DOF (designated operating funds)
DOF-LFA are allocations to units from investment income and local funds.
DOF-RCR are allocations of indirect cost recoveries to support academic and administration costs.
Taken from a pdf link on an outdated Budget and Planning Site (added 4/25/02)
Graduate School information on TA/RA Salaries with GSSA (TA/RA/SA) Salary Rates 2016-2017 (updated 7/8/16)
Institutional Numbers and Codes--on UW Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) Facts and Rates page, including the UW's Taxpayer Identification Number, called there the Entity Number and the IRS Number. (added 12/6/06)
Journal Vouchers: How prefix on BARs shows which unit did JV. (added 11/14/03)
Meeting notes and minutes for meetings I attend (added 12/21/04)
The Number Glossary at Development and Alumni Relations, among other things, says what types of account 63-, 65-, 80-, and -82 budget prefixes indicate. (added 5/23/02)
Object Codes for Expenditures at UW (link updated 4/12/16, added 5/23/02)
Payroll Tax Information for employees at UW (link updated 10/16/15, added 10/29/02, link updated to 2007 7/23/07)
Plagiarism reporting and detecting advice from UW faculty emails.
Revenue and source codes at UW (link updated 4/12/16, added 1/29/09)
Includes the source of the revenue. Each account has a preassigned code. The preassigned code can be found by going to the FIN application, choosing 1) OFIS, then entering the budget number and action 4. (added 7/30/02)
- Some information from Completing Cash Transmittal Forms (added 7/30/02 and not found 4/12/16) may be found in Checks Received in Campus Departments from Finance and Facilities Grant and Contract Accounting (added 4/12/16)
Sales and Use Tax at UW (link updated 4/12/16, 3/31/09, 4/16/08, added 8/16/02) as of 4/12/16 found in How to Pay from Finance and Facilities Procurement Services
- Tax is 9.6% in Seattle as of 4/1/2016.
- See Sales TaxGrid for a Goods and Services Taxability List (added 6/30/16)
- See the state Department of Revenue's pdf chart of local sales and use tax rates by county for localities in Washington State from Aberdeen to Zillah.
Spam domains blocked by UW (lost link 4/12/16, added 10/16/03)
Style and punctuation and Word list and common terms provided by UW Brand (added 7/8/16)
Tax rate finder for Washington State for sales and use tax, and lots of others (added 5/5/06)
TOEFL iBT score recommendations or requirements for undergraduate, graduate, and other programs at many universities and institutions, including some for UW. (added 2/15/07)
Unix Cook-Booklet describes how to use grep to search for text in files in multiple directories in the Looking inside files section. (added 11/21/07)
US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) Tech Tip to provide guidance for users connecting a new (or newly upgraded) computer to the Internet for the first time. (added 3/17/05)
W-2 explanation (added 1/28/03)

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