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Glossary: Glossary of Terms, Acronyms and Definitions
F

Funding Period

The period of time when federal funding is available for obligation by the recipient.


Funding Source

The Funding Source represents the total approved federal cost of a grant that consists of one or more Projects in TRACS. Associating a grant funding source to a project statement in TRACS is completed by the Federal Approver. 

FWS

Fish and Wildlife Service a bureau of the Department of Interior.

G

GAAP

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

GAGAS

Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards

GAO

U.S. Government Accountability Office.

General Location

The general location based on the location entered in the grant proposal details.  

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

Accounting standards issued by the GASB and FASB.

Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS)

Also known as the Yellow Book, means generally accepted government auditing standards issued by the Comptroller General of the United States, which are applicable to financial audits.

Geographic Information System (GIS)

A computer system capable of capturing, storing, analyzing, and displaying geographically referenced information, that is, data identified according to location. Practitioners also define a GIS as including the procedures, operating personnel, and spatial data that go into the system (270 FW8).