<Is it normal for public (non-government) agencies to have different retention policies/schedules for the same type of records series?>

This was confusing me also.  I think what may appear to be different retention times for one particular records series may, in fact, be a retention time for a "big bucket" of records series (used in an EDM) OR a flat retention period that does not consider different aspects of a records series.  

The example used by Natasha in her post <Accounting records in Russia are subject to the Law on Accounting and to the Tax law which set different retention periods (5 and 4 years after completing the transaction respectively)> where <sometimes these records are used for some specific tax-related purpose (e.g. write-off of unrecoverable debt), and the "tax retention" trigger becomes different (completion of this tax-related transaction)>, appears to show two different retention periods for the same documents.  However, in a specific retention schedule, the description of accounting records could break the two types down into an "a" or a "b" (as Larry stated), essentially making them two different records series types or subsets.

Ginny Jones 
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI) 
Records Manager 
Information Technology Division 
Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities 
Newport News, VA 
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