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AGGREGATE METHOD [2 records]

Record 1 1995-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Accounting
  • Translation (General)
CONT

... in those operations where departments use a cost accounting or other system to undertake the required allocations, the costs of maintaining a transaction-based allocation system may outweigh the benefits. In these cases a more aggregated approach is necessary to provide monthly information to the Central Accounting System.

Key term(s)
  • aggregated method
  • aggregate method
  • aggregate approach

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité publique
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

[...] les ministères qui se servent d'un système de comptabilité analytique ou d'un autre type de système pour effectuer la répartition nécessaire constatent bien souvent que les coûts d'un système de répartition axé sur les opérations l'emportent sur les avantages. Dans ce cas, ils doivent adopter une autre méthode, plus globale, qui leur permettra de fournir tous les mois des renseignements au système central de comptabilité.

Spanish

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Record 2 1991-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
OBS

a macro-editing method; the basic idea is to carry out checks first on aggregates and then on the individual records of the suspicious (flagged) aggregates. (Ref.: L. Granquist, "A Review of some Macro-editing Methods for Rationalizing the Editing Process", Stat Can Symposium 90).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique

Spanish

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