ctcLink Accounting Manual | 50.10 Student Financials Overview

ctcLink consists of three PeopleSoft pillars: Campus Solutions, Human Capital Management, and Financial Supply Chain Management (Finance). Each pillar has numerous modules; sometimes called applications.

Student Financials (SF) is one of nine modules in Campus Solutions (CS) and integrates with most of the modules (or applications) within CS as well as the general ledger in Finance (FSCM).

• Campus Solutions
• Campus Community
• Recruiting and Admissions
• Student Records
• Academic Advisement
• Financial Aid
• Student Financials
• Contributor Relations
• Campus Self-Service
• Continuing Education (ctc custom add-on - CampusCE)

SF is used to manage student charges, receivables, financial aid payments, third party contracts, billing, collections, and cashiering. SF receives information from virtually all areas of PeopleSoft Campus Solutions. With SF, colleges:

• Calculate fees and tuition
• Maintain customer account information
• Create bills
• Apply Financial Aid
• Transfer charges to Third Parties
• Establish payment plans
• Refund tuition and fees
• Perform cashiering
• Process collections
• Interact with your general ledger system
• Set up and print tax forms

Nearly all financial activity in Student Financials is generated using item types.  The following sections will provide a basic understanding of the configuration of item types as well as the accounting behind the item types.