slow in closing

English translation: slow in producing final figures

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English term or phrase:	slow in closing
Selected answer:	slow in producing final figures

11:28 Mar 11, 2008

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Finance (general)

English term or phrase: slow in closing

Please tell me what does mean slow in closing?
Quality of Statistics. During our interviews, we heard many concerns raised about the reliability of statistics in Egypt. Some of these concerns were based on well-documented inadequacies: the fiscal statistics from the Ministry of Finance are not complete (because of numerous extra budgetary items) and are slow in closing;

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slow in producing final figures

Explanation:
I think this simply means that the Ministry of Finance are slow in producing finalised stats as they take their time adding on all the extra budgetary items, i. e. they are slow in closing their budget.

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Natalia Koltsova
Russian Federation
Local time: 12:30

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slow in producing final figures

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slow in producing final figures

Natalia Koltsova
Russian Federation
Local time: 12:30
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Native speaker of: Russian
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