{"id":4727,"date":"2025-08-25T18:52:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-business-services\/?page_id=4727"},"modified":"2025-08-25T18:52:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:52:45","slug":"activitycodes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/business-services\/activitycodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Activity Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Activity Codes<\/strong> are optional, but can be used to further categorize spending within a FUND and an ORG.&nbsp; Activity Codes can be added to a transaction when reconciling your Pcard, or when you provide a FOAPAL for an Invoice, Journal Entry, Check Request, Wire Transfer or Standard Engagement Agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, add <strong>1100<\/strong> Activity Code to 100000-720040-700000-65-<strong>1100<\/strong> to show that the expense was for an activity\/event where you would like to keep track of all of the expenditures.&nbsp; A blank key can be created by going to&nbsp; <a class=\"more more-long\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/12_Dy5JxAGz5Tl8r-P3uqStQb1RyRAz382XQNvReszmE\/copy\">Activity Codes (gDoc)<\/a>&nbsp; (choose &#8216;Make a Copy&#8217;, then edit).&nbsp; This blank key has all of the available 4-digit codes available that can be assigned by those who manage the Fund \/ Org combination.&nbsp; &nbsp;Each Fund \/ Org manager or monitor is responsible for knowing what each Activity Code represents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If an Activity Code was added as a part of a FOAP<b>A<\/b>L (Fund-Org-Account-Program-<strong>Activity<\/strong>-Location), when an Invoice, Journal Entry, Check request, Wire Transfer, or Standard Engagement Agreement was requested, the Activity Code would appear in the Finance Report via Argos.&nbsp; &nbsp; There is a report that is focused on Activity Codes (called the Activity Code Report) where one can search by the Activity Code.&nbsp; Activity Codes are optional, therefore, transactions with an invalid activity code will be show a &#8220;no activity code&#8221; within Finance reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Questions about Activity Codes?\u00a0 Contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/business-services\/facultystaff\/matt-walters\/\">Director of Accounting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activity Codes are optional, but can be used to further categorize spending within a FUND and an ORG.&nbsp; Activity Codes can be added to a transaction when reconciling your Pcard, or when you provide a FOAPAL for an Invoice, Journal Entry, Check Request, Wire Transfer or Standard Engagement Agreement. For example, add 1100 Activity Code [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4727","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/business-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/business-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/business-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/business-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/business-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/business-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8365,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/business-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4727\/revisions\/8365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/business-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}