I've not met this issue, but the state and status values look like those for workflows (which includes business rules and business process flows). The Ribbon Workbench will publish the entity to apply the changes, and publishing can also check the business
rules and business process flows, so I'd check if you have any of these on the account entity, and if there are any issues with them
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