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Published Sun, Aug 3, 2014 · 10:00 PM
LOOKING at my monthly Internet and handphone bills one day many years ago, I was stumped when recording them down. For which month should I record my bill expenditure?
A typical bill has a date that the bill was made, say July 20. I might receive the bill a few days later.
But the actual payment through Giro - the outward transfer of cash from my bank account - takes place two weeks later, in August.
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