Financial Data Quality Checklist
Use this workflow before publishing dashboards, reports, or model outputs.
1. Confirm source freshness and timezone consistency.
2. Reconcile totals across raw, transformed, and reported layers.
3. Flag outliers with rule-based thresholds and manual review.
4. Validate currency, decimal precision, and rounding policy.
5. Log lineage from source system to final KPI.
6. Run pre-release smoke checks on critical metrics.