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Standard Procedure for Manual Expense Reconciliation

An administrative supervisor is training a new hire on how to manually reconcile petty cash vouchers. The hire needs to add two specific amounts: $23.5 and $41.38. Describe the standard three-step procedure for adding these two decimal values. In your response, specifically explain how to align the numbers, what adjustment must be made to the number 23.5 to ensure place-value consistency, and where the decimal point is positioned in the final sum.

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