Frequently Asked Questions

An endowment is an amount of money given by a donor for a certain purpose. The principal amount can never be spent. Only the earnings should be available for spending and within the restrictions made by the donor.

You should get your department head and area head or dean’s approvals.

You can get it from the travel unit at the financial accounting office, Provost's Office or deans' offices.

You should submit a general payment request secured with earmarked funds, to be attached to an approved Per Diem form and a copy of the conference brochure.

An accounting for Per Diem Form must be submitted within seven working days, along with the boarding passes and a copy of the e-ticket as evidence of travel dates and itinerary.

You can find these forms here.

New students have the acceptance letter with the total amount and the method of payment stated on it. Returning students have more than one option; either to print the account summary and pay in any of the selected branches of the Commercial International Bank (CIB) or to visit the Office of Student Accounting to get a copy of their bills.

Refer to the registrar's website.

Refer to the Academic Calendar.

Visit the student accounting office to get your invoice and proceed to pay at the Commercial International Bank at the AUC New Cairo branch.

You can visit the Office of Student Financial Affairs and Scholarships and fill in a petition form. If it is approved by the director of student financial affairs and scholarships, bring it into the student accounting office to remove the hold.

If you have a credit balance on your account, visit the student accounting office to complete a refund form. You will receive your refund within three-five business days.

The deadline for receiving the approved payment request at the payroll office is day 15 of every month. The pay date is the sixth of the following month. Any payment requests received after day 15 will be processed a month later.

A request for disbursement should be submitted by your department with all the required approvals to the attention of the payroll unit. Your check will be processed within one week.

For all your questions, the payroll unit.

If the sponsor of the grant is a federal sponsor (funded by the US government), the fund to be used is 10910000, and if the sponsor is non-federal, the fund to be used is 10900000, and 10920000 for the cost-shared WBSs.

From the screen CJ20N, the main WBS should be inserted in the field called Project Definition. The same screen can provide the user with important data i.e. The cost center that hosts the WBS, functional area, the currency of the project, as well as the name of the PI in some updated projects.

Yes, WBSs are multi-year projects, and the user can open the WBS from inception to date in order to read the accumulated expenses and obtain the final balance of the budget.

No, the user should insert only the WBS, fund and GL code along with the amount that needs to be paid.

• ZFM05 shows the budget, the actual expenses and the balance left over for each project.
• CJ20N shows the breakdown of each main WBS and the data correlated with that WBS, as mentioned above in point number two.