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Retention Rules For Audit

Legal has an audit next week and asked me to set retention and access rules for archived plan approvals. I am new to r…

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Legal has an audit next week and asked me to set retention and access rules for archived plan approvals. I am new to retention schedules and I fear choosing rules that make retrieval slow or violate policy. I need the lightweight set of retention periods and access levels that satisfy legal and keep retrieval fast, plus the one-sentence rationale I should give records to justify the choices.
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Legal needs retention and access rules for archived approvals before their audit next week.

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