Northern Outposts Mining Company has 17 mines in various locations throughout Northern Quebec, Nunavut, and Yukon. You have just been hired as the assistant office manager in the head office, which is located in Whitehorse. Because of your computer expertise, one of your duties will be to generate special purpose reports from the accounting information system. The director of operations has asked you to prepare a report for an afternoon meeting that details all of the property, plant and equipment for each of the 17 mines. You are confident that this should be an easy task but, upon reviewing the accounting records, you discover that all of the information regarding the assets is maintained in only one location, a General Ledger account called Mining Assets!
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Using the elements of critical thinking described on the inside front cover, comment.