Sign-off
In accounting, sign-off means formal approval that a section is complete.
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Authority
This definition follows Internal control — SOX §404.
Every citation in this system, with the text we read and the date we checked it, is in US GAAP and where these rules come from.
The lesson that teaches this
Accounting, 0 to 1 — a free course taught end to end on one month of one company, with the spreadsheet exercises to work it yourself.
Sign-off, in use
Quoted from the 2 documents that use the word — what it does to an interface, in the spec's own sentence.
The close is a first-class object with a pipeline, owners, gates, and sign-off.
Sign-off is an AlertDialog with a hold-to-confirm — signing off a close is irreversible.
For founders
The same idea written for a founder: what it costs a startup that ignores it, and what to do in a real month.
What it is not called
Each of these is a real word for a different thing. Using it here is what makes a product read as though it was built by someone who has not done the work.
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Components that render this
The concept is not documentation-only. These are the components that name it in their specification, grouped and stated exactly as the catalog states them.
Components that render the terms it depends on
Little in the catalog names this concept outright, but its definition is built out of others that are named. These render approval.
Terms this one depends on
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