Determining Retention Periods

• Retention Periods are determined and expressed in 3 ways.

  • Time (“retain 3 years” “retain permanently”)
  • Event or Action (“retain until audit report is released”)
  • Time and Event or Action (“retain 3 years after case closed”)

• Retention periods may be subdivided

  • “retain in office 3 years, then retain storage 6 more years, then destroy”

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