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Your fin model has normal sanity checks and then functional checks.
And in the end the out put must be readable AND make sense.
And whatever bug you have is going to propagate down your projected time series.
Finance chaps use finance as their weapon of debugging. Sure mistakes get through. I’ve seen mistakes get through code as well though.
Also - analysts get fired a lot faster.
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Your fin model has normal sanity checks and then functional checks.
And in the end the out put must be readable AND make sense.
And whatever bug you have is going to propagate down your projected time series.
Finance chaps use finance as their weapon of debugging. Sure mistakes get through. I’ve seen mistakes get through code as well though.
Also - analysts get fired a lot faster.