Acknowledgments

Many readers identified and corrected errors in our book. In particular, we would like to thank William Clarke, BW manager, ChevronTexaco. He made most of the following corrections.

Part I

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Chapter 1

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Chapter 2

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Chapter 3

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“Notes: For the latest BW release 30B, we need to not only select the Hierarchy structure time-dependent option, but also click the External Characteristics in Hierarchies button (not shown in SCREEN 3.34 of BW 21C) and assign IO_SREG and IO_SOFF from the list of InfoObjects.”

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Chapter 4

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Page 105

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Chapter 5

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Chapter 13

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