Policy Acronyms
SPG
What is Standard Practice Guide?
The group that establishes all University policies and exceptions.
What is Procurement?
The SSC team that reviews Chrome River expense reports to ensure they follow U-M policy.
What is Travel & Expense Audit?
“Receipts are required of a single expenditure $75.00 and greater”
What is U-M SPG?
In 1903 these famous brothers took flight for the first time in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
What is An Airplane?
PHI
What is Protected Health Information?
Establishes policies for travel and business hosting expenses enables the University to effectively comply with federal and state regulations.
What is Travel and Business Hosting Expense Policy?
The team that interacts with customers via phone and email for the finance teams at the SSC.
What is Finance Customer Care?
All SSC reports should use the naming convention of “Not Ready - uniqname” if not defined by a unit policy.
What is SSC Policy?
In 1886, the first was patented by Carl Benz. Henry Ford would later make them affordable to the masses.
What is The Car / Automobile?
PII
What is Personally Identifiable Information?
Outlines the policy for payments to students from academic or other units when the payments are for non-employment purposes.
What is Payments/Reimbursements to Students for Non-Employment Purposes?
The team at the SSC that creates payment requests for student and guest reimbursements.
What is Student Guest Reimbursement (SGR) Team?
Written department chair approval is required for a faculty member to purchase his/her own book with University funding for all LSA (College of Literature, Science, and the Arts) faculty.
What is College/School-Wide Policy?
In 1712, it first commercially successful engine that could transmit continuous power to a machine using water and heat.
What is The Steam Engine?
TBHER
What is Travel Business Hosting Expense Report?
Policy outlining University funds used to compensate, as tokens of appreciation for outstanding work-related achievements, significant contributions, or major milestones.
What is Awards, Gifts, and Prizes?
The SSC team that processes prize, gifts, and, awards at the SSC.
What is PeoplePay?
Tipping for hosted meals cannot exceed 20% and an overage that exceeds 20% must be excluded from the reimbursement.
What is department policy?
Was invented in 1817 and was known at the time as a “running machine”. It was perfected over the years with the most notable addition in 1930 when Schwinn added a spring fork and fat tires.
What is The bike / Bicycle?
CTP
What is Collegiate Travel Planner(s)?
Travelers are eligible for 75 percent of the per diem allowance rate on the first and last days of travel and on single-day trips, where continuous travel is greater than or equal to 12 hours.
What is the Travel and Business Hosting Expense Policy?
The team at the SSC that processes the requests created by the Student Guest Reimbursement (SGR) team.
What is Accounts Payable Non-Purchase Order (AP Non-PO)?
A customer requests that you process a report in Chrome River per their department’s policy, but the SPG states that it should be processed through Student/Guest reimbursement. This is how you should proceed.
What is a Student Guest Reimbursement (SGR) request?
Note: SPGs are the highest point in the order of operations and trump both School/College and department policy.
The first was thought to be a small raft with long poles to push across rivers in 1655.
What is A Ferry Boat?