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What is Recordkeeping?
Recordkeeping is making and maintaining complete, accurate and reliable evidence of business transactions in the form of recorded information. It is an umbrella term that includes the following:
- • the creation of records in the course of business activity and the means to ensure the creation of adequate records;
- • the design, establishment and operation of recordkeeping systems, and
- • the management of records through recordkeeping systems in their business context (traditionally regarded as the domain of records management) and as archives (traditionally regarded as the domain of archives administration).
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