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Why retain documents?

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Why retain documents?

- So why do we retain documents? Well, we retain documents to preserve knowledge, to preserve the information generated by your company so that it can use that information to compete with others in its industry. To document relationships that you have with, for instance, your clients and your vendors. To document your company's acheivements, so you can use those achievements to springboard onto better things. And to protect against liability. One of the things to note is that documentation does not end with the initial contract. If, for instance, you are signing on a new client and you execute a client agreement, you'll obviously want to save the client agreement itself, so that you have documentation of the parameters of the relationship with the client. What is expected of you and what is expected of the client. However, you will want to document the project progress and your final work product. So you will not only have the original client agreement, but you'll also have…

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