<span>In 1815 at the close of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars the statesmen representing the great powers, in their efforts to restore stable governance to Europe after twenty-six years of turmoil, came to accept (under the persuasion of Talleyrand - the Foreign Minister of the recently restored French monarchy) that "legitimate sovereigns" should be restored, where possible, to their thrones. </span>
It declared that England's 13 colonies in North America were not colonies of
England any more. That meant that they didn't have to do what the King of England
said anymore, and they didn't need his permission to do anything they wanted to do,
and they didn't have to pay taxes to England any more, and England could not take
their crops or natural resources any more, and England should just go away and
leave them alone.
England did not just say OK have it your way. They sent their army over here, to
spank the colonies and make them behave and keep doing what England said.
But somehow the colonies won that war after fighting for a few years, and they
made the English army go away, and after that, they were not English colonies
any more, they were the United States of America.
The answer is: c. It’s important to keep accurate records.
In cases when the people from authority need to conduct an audit to our financial information, they will crosschecks the accounting records that we have with the actual proof of the transaction (slips, bank statement, cheques, etc). If, there are some inaccuracies in the records, they could use it as a proof to indict us for financial frauds even if it's a honest mistake on our part.
