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disaggregations v/s breakdown
Given the total balance amount - e.g. receivables - I think you would ask for a breakdown - which would be a list of balances from the receivables ledger.
Given a total amount of something like repairs and maintenance, I think you would ask for a breakdown too.
But if, typically looking at sales/gross profit in analytical procedures, disaggregation suggests that your are looking for something that has been aggregated. For example, the aggregation of sales by product line/geographic location/division, etc.
I think disaggregation has a narrower and more specific meaning of restoring the make-up of a total into constituent parts/sub-classifications.
You're not going to use them interchangeably if you reserve the use of the word disaggregated for the description of analytical procedures.
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