GPR
AR
Financial Terminology
Variance Notes
FCRF
100

The difference between Market Rent and Potential Rent

What is the Loss/Gain to lease?


100

This report is where the AR has to tie out. 

What is Trial Balance?

100

The action of moving an amount from one general ledger account to another.

What is a reclass?

100

The difference between a budgeted income or expense number and the actual income or expense in a particular month or year-to-date.

What is a variance?

100

FCRF for short

What is Financial Change Request Form?

200

Adjustments to rent for a month outside of the current operating month that avoids false vacancy.

What is PPRA?

200

If a past resident has this on the ledger you cannot write it off, you have to audit the ledger to see why it exists

What is a credit?

200

DAILY DOUBLE

A property’s financial statements and transactions over the life of the property, complete with debit and credit account records that validate the trial balance report in detail.

What is a General Ledger (GL)?

200

Variance Notes should be added here

What is Yardi Voyager? 

Extra Credit: Financial-analytics-Notes Section

200

These types of expenses can be added to automatically feed into your accrual tab for your accountant to audit if the bill has been paid or not. 

What are Recurring Contract Accruals

300

This is the amount our unit is valued at, and is set by your RM/VP or your Revenue Management software. 

What is market rent? 

300

This is the summary type you should use when running your AR Report

What is Resident By Charge Code?

300

A calculation that is defined as total revenue minus total operating expenses.

What is Net Operating Income (NOI)?

300

This is the Avenue5 Standard threshold for making a variance note

What is $500 and 5%? 

300
Do not accrue to this just because you don't have an expense in your Budget Comparison for a month

What is Budget? 

400
The rent amount charged to a resident ledger

What is Actual Rent?

400

This filter allows you to see which resident is causing your AR to not tie out

What is AR Tie Out By Resident?

400

Income and expenses are reported as the items are incurred, not as cash flows

What is accrual-based accounting?

400

These are 3 main notes for every good variance note to include

What are: specific reasons, action items, whether favorable or unfavorable? 

400

The final operational approval for all FCRFs. 

Who is the regional manager?

500

The amount between actual rent and potential rent

What is vacancy? 

500

This function resets the back-end Yardi data allowing the AR to tie to the Trial Balance

What is "reset datamart"?

500

Total Rental Income DIVIDED by Total Potential Rent

What is Economic Occupancy?

500

No matter the variance these sections should ALWAYS have a note

What are TOTAL categories? 

500

The FCRF is first due to the accountant at this time. 

What is Pre-Close?