May 15, 2009 23:27
15 yrs ago
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German term
sachlich und rechnerisch festgestellt
German to English
Bus/Financial
Finance (general)
Invoicing
Not much context, really, just a checkbox in a form that the project manager has to fill in.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +2 | (determined to be) true and accurate |
John Fenz
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| 3 -1 | factual and numerical accuracy has been determined |
Ellen Kraus
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Change log
May 16, 2009 11:39: writeaway changed "Field (specific)" from "Business/Commerce (general)" to "Finance (general)"
Proposed translations
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(determined to be) true and accurate
sachlich und rechnerisch = true and accurate
A conventional turn of phrase found in financial audit reports
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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-05-16 01:58:29 GMT)
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Correct Reference!
http://tinyurl.com/r77uw9
A conventional turn of phrase found in financial audit reports
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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-05-16 01:58:29 GMT)
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Correct Reference!
http://tinyurl.com/r77uw9
Example sentence:
the accounts of the firm to be closed have been independently certified, by an auditor accepted by the Authority, to be a true and accurate account of the assets and liabilities of that firm;
die Bücher des zu schließenden Unternehmens von einem von der Überwachungsbehörde akzeptierten unabhängigen Wirtschaftsprüfer als sachlich und rechnerisch richtige Aufstellung der Aktiva und Passiva dieses Unternehmens bestätigt worden sind
Reference:
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
-1
10 hrs
Ellen Kraus
Austria
Austria
Native in German
Austria
more than thirty years of experience
Native in: German 
Works in: Greek to German, English to German, Greek to English, and 5 more.
Related KudoZ points
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factual and numerical accuracy has been determined
would IMO also be understandable here
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
writeaway
: accounting/auditing speak is highly specialised. approximations aren't really acceptable in this field.
1 hr
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| disagree |
John Fenz
: "true and accurate" is accounting "boilerplate".
6 hrs
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| neutral |
Erich Friese
: ....that's what it means, BUT that is NOT what the translation says: .(Should be: 'Checked / examined factually & arithmetically....or something like that)
19 hrs
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