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Petusek Posted 13 years ago
Business & Finance

Phrase correction/re-wording needed

Hello everyone!

I need to form a noun phrase that would express that the accounting system in question can, among other things, monitor whether, how much and to what extent, the suppliers have drawn from the supplier credit(s). My suggestions are as follows, I'll be grategul for any advice or help:

(a) monitoring of supplier credit drawing(s?)
(b) monitoring of supplier credit draft(s?)

Someone (a non-native spealer of English like me) has just suggested:

(c) monitoring of drawing from credit by suppliers

...which sounds a bit cumbersome and unnatural to me.

Many thanks for any help in advance!

Best,

P.
  

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which sounds a bit cumbersome and unnatural to me. You are right. ' You said that you wanted the noun phrase to express all those things, so it has to be that long.

— Canadian45

  • which sounds a bit cumbersome and unnatural to me.
  • You are right.
  • ' You said that you wanted the noun phrase to express all those things, so it has to be that long.
  • But you can shorten it by removing the details.
  • ' The above is similar to your suggestions.
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petusekc) monitoring of drawing from credit by suppliers
...which sounds a bit cumbersome and unnatural to me. You are right.
'Monitoring whether, how much, and to what extent the suppliers have drawn from supplier credits is (just) one of the things the accounting system can do.'
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Hi

I'm not sure that a word after "credit" is needed...

- Monitor of Supplier Credit

If not that, then maybe...

- Monitor of Supplier Credit Transactions

Dave
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Wonderful, thanks a lot!

Please, see below for my comment.
canadian45 'Monitoring supplier credit withdrawal is (just) one.........'The above is similar to your suggestions.
This is exactly what I need, since it is supposed to be only one of a long list of similar (grammatically simplified) items.

As the other items have the struc
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dave_anonHiI'm not sure that a word after "credit" is needed...- Monitor of Supplier CreditIf not that, then maybe...- Monitor of Supplier Credit TransactionsDave
Thank you, Dave!

Are you also suggesting that monitoring should be replaced with monitor? I gather thus the gerund form monitoring is not correct, right?

Best,
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petusekAs the other items have the structure of monitoring of X, I wonder if I should change monitoring supplier credit withdrawal to monitoring of supplier credit withdrawal too to make it coherent with the rest of the list. What do you think?
1) "of" is not necessary. But if you want to use it, iit's not a big mistake.
2) What "rest of the list" do you
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Hi

"Monitoring" is fine, but "monitor", I think, does the same job

- The new web screen is a monitor of the client's transactions in the last month

Either is OK

Dave
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"Monitor" is not correct in our situation
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Hmm

Suppose you've got a program that receives and processes the suppliers' credit transactions. And then you've got a program that summarises all that and reports back to the user

I'd say that's a...

Monitor - A program that observes, supervises, or controls the activities of other programs

...which is the dictionary definition. But it's up to you...
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You know, there's a long list of things the accounting system can do. To give you a better idea of what it looks like, here's a longer portion of it:

...
• proration of incidental acquisition costs
• acquisition management for different cost centres
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dave_anonSuppose you've got a program that receives and processes the suppliers' credit transactions. And then you've got a program that summarises all that and reports back to the user
I'd say that's a...
Monitor - A program that observes, supervises, or controls the activities of other programs
No one has said that "Monitor" is not a noun.
But, u
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