by an authorized person and resubmitted for processing with the next day's business. the edit program recalculates the batch control to reflect changes due to the removal of error records. the"clean" transactions files is then passed to the next run in the process.
short run
at this point, the sales order file is in no useful sequence. to process a sequential transaction file, it must be placed in the same sequence as the master file that it is updating. since the first master file to be updated in the systems is accounts receivable, the sort run physically arranges the sales order transaction file sequentially by account number, which is one of its secondary keys.