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English translation: record-keeping

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German term or phrase:	belegwesen
English translation:	record-keeping
Entered by:	David Wallace

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02:01 Mar 15, 2004

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Bus/Financial - Insurance

German term or phrase: belegwesen

Das Belegwesen ist geordnet.

David Wallace KudoZ activity Questions: 93 (none open) (2 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 30
Local time: 04:35

maybe

Explanation:
A system of recordkeeping is in excellent working order

or 'is well established'

or 'is functioning well'

Selected response from:

gangels
Local time: 02:35

Grading comment

I went with "There is a well-established system of record-keeping"...maybe not exact, but I think it conveys the right sense, and you pointed me in the right direction.
Thanks to you, and to everybody!
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Summary of answers provided

4 +2

Voucher system/ administration

Antoinette-M. Sixt Ruth

3 +2

receipt / documentation department

Frank Meyer

maybe

gangels

Proper documentation is kept.

Terry Moran

Discussion entries: 2

Answers

19 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

Voucher system/ administration

Explanation:
I am not really sure as more context would be helpful; however, a BELEG is a voucher in accounting. A BELEG could also be simply a document.
May be this will help for the time being.

Antoinette-M. Sixt Ruth
Local time: 03:35
Works in field
Native speaker of:

German,

English
PRO pts in category: 4

20 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

receipt / documentation department

Explanation:
Beleg is a receipt or other document. -wesen is likely a department responsible for handling such documents, or (less likely) the totality of document handling rules and procedures applied by such a department.

Frank Meyer
Native speaker of:

German

7 hrs confidence:

Proper documentation is kept.

Explanation:
As others have said, Beleg is pretty general - so why should the translation be specific?

Terry Moran
France
Local time: 10:35
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 22

11 hrs confidence:

maybe

Explanation:
A system of recordkeeping is in excellent working order

or 'is well established'

or 'is functioning well'

gangels
Local time: 02:35
Native speaker of:

English,

German
PRO pts in category: 96

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