Chapter 8
Keeping Accurate Records
A Critical Duty
Keeping accurate records and maintaining an up-to-date filing system are important responsibilities for most administrative assistants. Every filing system ever conceived requires the person maintaining it to approach the duty with a sense of pride. He or she must be confident that any file can be retrieved quickly, perhaps even as the employer is still requesting it on the telephone.
Most companies today, even small businesses, store their letters and documents in their computers and automatically maintain them there or on a network drive. (However, as administrative assistants know only too well, even with computers, the amount of paper correspondence and documents to be saved seems to grow ...
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