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WORK ORDER FUNCTION [3 records]

Record 1 2013-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Business and Administrative Documents
  • Auditing (Accounting)
CONT

Internal financial audit reports communicate audit findings to management in order to assist them in monitoring the effectiveness and efficiency of the financial function, in improving the control from work, and in ensuring compliance with established policies, plans and procedures. The report should supply the manager with the information he needs, to take or initiate corrective action on any deficiencies reported.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écrits commerciaux et administratifs
  • Vérification (Comptabilité)
OBS

rapport d'audit financier interne : le Bureau de la traduction du gouvernement du Canada recommande l’usage du terme «audit» comme équivalent de l’anglais «audit» dans le domaine de la comptabilité (REC-13/2013-02).

Spanish

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Record 2 1996-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications
CONT

The work order function is designed to optimize the use of technical personnel as well as simplifying the administration of the different network management tasks to be performed, including trouble ticketting, configuration changes, etc.

OBS

network management

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécommunications

Spanish

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Record 3 1986-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrostatics
CONT

When two dissimilar metals are brought into contact, they give rise to an electrostatic potential difference equal to the difference of the work functions of the two metals (the Volta potential). At the interface of the metal couple, a bipolar electronic layer is established which attracts or repels mobile electrons, depending on the direction of the current flow.

OBS

The work function corresponds to the energy an electron must acquire in order to leave a solid.

Key term(s)
  • electrostatic potential difference

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électrostatique
Key term(s)
  • différence de potentiel électrostatique

Spanish

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