Word: code
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...change that particularly challenges financial administrators like Ross is the new 33-digit account code system...
...most disturbing problems, according to Ross, is that mistakes are easy with the longer 33 digit code. One simple keystroke error can cause much bigger problems for her lab later...
Under the systems implemented July 1, each of the University's nearly 100,000 cash accounts is identified by a unique 33-digit code. Prior to that date, those same accounts were identified with only 14 digits...
...Users who deal with the codes daily say they are hard to memorize. They take longer to type. And they are easy to botch. Correcting one typo in the 33-digit code can take hours of fact checking and backtracking...
...Elizabeth C. "Beppie" Huidekoper, Harvard's vice president for finance, says she knows 33-digits are not ideal. But she adds that the University had little choice about code length...