Transaction review is where broken files reveal themselves.
This category documents transaction pattern failures observed during diagnostic reviews, where volume, automation, and repetition obscure underlying structural problems.
Posts in this category examine patterns such as duplicated activity, inconsistent classification, automated entries without verification, and historical overlap that compound over time. Individually, these transactions may appear minor. In aggregate, they create false stability while accuracy quietly erodes.
Most transaction-level issues are not isolated mistakes. They are patterns. When review focuses on correcting individual entries instead of understanding behavior over time, cleanup becomes guesswork and reporting becomes unreliable.
Each post isolates a specific transaction pattern failure to show how behavior matters more than volume when assessing file integrity.
Transaction Review When Volume Outpaced Attention Transaction review didn’t collapse in this file. It slowly lost priority as volume increased and oversight shifted. This breakdown is one piece of a larger failure pattern explored in the full cleanup case study . Transaction review didn’t collapse in this file. When the…
Transaction Review Transaction Review Is Where Broken Files Reveal Themselves Most broken files do not look broken at the account level. They reveal themselves transaction by transaction, where structure either holds or collapses. Transaction review is not proofreading. It is behavioral analysis that determines whether activity belongs in the period,…
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