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English translation: preliminary actions

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Spanish term or phrase:	acciones previas
English translation:	preliminary actions
Entered by:	Kate Major

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16:05 Nov 29, 2007

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Bus/Financial - Accounting / computer programme related to finance/accounting

Spanish term or phrase: acciones previas

It's the title of a section of the manual: "Cierre del periodo -acciones previas". I suppose this is "close of period"- be it end of year or whatever, but really do not want to get the next bit wrong...is this shares from the last period? I'm not sure I understand the concept!

Kate Major KudoZ activity Questions: 579 (none open) (29 closed without grading) Answers: 327 Spain
Local time: 09:30

preliminary actions

Explanation:
Advanced Computer Tools for Inspection Results Evaluation as a ...- [ Traduzca esta página ]Advanced Computer Tools for Inspection Results Evaluation as a Base for ... 2 PRELIMINARY ACTIONS. Quite clearly, the design of such a system for a certain ...
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Method of pre-caching user interaction elements using input device ...- [ Traduzca esta página ]Implementation of the functionality or the preliminary actions does not ... by the CROSS pen computing group and is referred to as the CROSSPAD device. ...
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CE (Computing Element)- [ Traduzca esta página ]The Computing Element (CE) contains two logical parts: The gatekeeper/job-manager and the ... Follow the instructions described in preliminary actions: ...
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[PDF] COMPUTER SIMULATION OF EMERGENCY SCENARIOS FOR MULTI-AGENTS ...Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Versión en HTML
development of a computer-based model of the domain for the ..... The session starting includes a number of preliminary actions ...
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Edward Tully
Local time: 09:30

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Thansk to everyone- think 'first steps' sounds very good but later I have 'steps' as something else so 'preliminary actions' is the one- thanks a lot for the help. most appreciated.
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Summary of answers provided

4 +1

Previous actions / previous stocks

dianacampo

first steps

Scott Alexander

3 +1

preparatory actions

Vittorio Ferretti

preliminary actions

Edward Tully

Discussion entries: 2

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6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Previous actions / previous stocks

Explanation:
It all depends on what the manual is about. If it has to do with finances, I'd surely go with "previous stock" (or "past stock") ....

however, if it's not about finances/stockholders, then that would be "previous actions"

dianacampo
Local time: 03:30
Native speaker of:

Spanish

7 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

preparatory actions

Explanation:
IMO

Vittorio Ferretti
Local time: 09:30
Works in field
Native speaker of:

German

36 mins confidence:

preliminary actions

Edward Tully
Local time: 09:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 247

Grading comment

Thansk to everyone- think 'first steps' sounds very good but later I have 'steps' as something else so 'preliminary actions' is the one- thanks a lot for the help. most appreciated.

6 hrs confidence:

first steps

Explanation:
Kate added that this is a computer manual talking about an accounting system before closing a period. So they're talking about the "first steps" that need to be done before doing the period close.

I've installed several computer accounting systems for Spanish- and English-speaking clients. Closing a period or doing a period close is a pretty big deal, because it's not always easy to fix any mistakes that might occur, and there's usually an audit log listing everything that was done on the computer.

So before you do a period close, there's normally a few things you have to do in order to make sure everything is ready. The simplest term for this in a user manual would be "first steps," which also gets a decent number of hits on google when you search for it like this:

google [accounting "period close" "first steps"]
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=accounting "period clos...

If you wanted something fancier, you could alternatively say "preliminary steps."

Scott Alexander
Local time: 04:30
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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