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Reporting & leadership
Data integrity and reconciliation
Making sure the numbers in the report tie to the source — the ledger to the bank, the sub-ledgers to the balance sheet, the model to the statements — before anyone reads them.
Owned by: AnalystTest band: Analyst
In practice
One number that does not tie destroys trust in every number. Reconcile the boring lines first.
The kind of thing the test asks
- Before sending the monthly pack, the check that matters most is…