Which account was used to purchase apps

I need to re-download a few apps. I've used two accounts to purhcase apps in the past. To avoid using the wrong account and being charged, I'd like to figure out before-hand which account was used to purchase an app. Any way to do this? Appreciate it.

The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
You have not completed the process of setting up a new Mac. You need to open the Mac App Store (MAS), sign into your account, go to the Purchased pane and you should find the three free ilife apps listed with an accept button. After you accept them into your Apple ID you can update them.

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Thanks for popping in....
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Hi dip_kinu,
I apologize, I'm a bit unclear on exactly what device you are trying to set up and what is happening when you try to do so. If you are having issues remembering your Apple ID, or feel like you may have set up multiple Apple ID's, you may find the following page helpful:
Apple - My Apple ID: Find your Apple ID
https://iforgot.apple.com/appleid
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Have you done a Disk Repair and a Disk Permissions Repair?
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To update this application, sign in to the account you used to purchase it.

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