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  2. Bookkeeping - Wikipedia

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    An important difference between a manual and an electronic accounting system is the former's latency between the recording of a financial transaction and its posting in the relevant account.

  3. Scribe - Wikipedia

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    The complexity of reconciling Japanese with a system of writing not meant to express it meant that acquiring literacy was a long process. [31] Phonetic syllabaries ( kana ) , used for private writing, were developed by the 8th century and were in use along with kanji , the logographic system, used for official records. [ 32 ]

  4. Primary source - Wikipedia

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    This wall painting found in the Roman city of Pompeii is an example of a primary source about people in Pompeii in Roman times (portrait of Terentius Neo).. In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called an original source) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time ...

  5. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  6. Electronic data interchange - Wikipedia

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    Among the first integrated systems using EDI were Freight Control Systems. One such real-time system was the London Airport Cargo EDP Scheme (LACES) at Heathrow Airport, London, UK, in 1971. Implementing the direct trader input (DTI) method, it allowed forwarding agents to enter information directly into the customs processing system, reducing ...

  7. Manuscript (publishing) - Wikipedia

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    A manuscript is the work that an author submits to a publisher, editor, or producer for publication. Especially in academic publishing , manuscript can also refer to an accepted document, reviewed but not yet in a final format, distributed in advance as a preprint .

  8. Manuscript - Wikipedia

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    The study of the writing (the "hand") in surviving manuscripts is termed palaeography (or paleography). The traditional abbreviations are MS for manuscript and MSS for manuscripts, [6] [7] while the forms MS., ms or ms. for singular, and MSS., mss or mss. for plural (with or without the full stop, all uppercase or all lowercase) are also accepted.

  9. Manuscript culture - Wikipedia

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    The transition of communication technology: oral culture, manuscript culture, print culture, and Information Age. A manuscript culture is a culture that depends on hand-written manuscripts to store and disseminate information. It is a stage that most developed cultures went through in between oral culture and print culture.