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What goes wrong with “Over and short” in a shop, thinking about tolerance set too high or too low?
Planned: listed in the catalog, not built C0052
The difference between counted cash and expected cash. Small differences are normal; patterns by person, hour or day are the signal. Plan for: tolerance set too high or too low; short on one cashier every friday; over that is really an unrecorded sale. In the catalog it is a plan and nothing is built.
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