Technical requirements

This chapter builds on concepts introduced in Chapter 1, Recognizing the Importance of Data Integrity in Finance, under the A quick tour of concepts relevant to data integrity management section. You may revisit this part to better appreciate our discussion in this chapter.

At the same time, we will be using datasets from a fictional company for our hands-on exercise using Microsoft Excel. If you do not have Microsoft Excel, you may use Google Sheets, which is free with a Google account, instead. Our sample datasets are saved in the Packt GitHub repository, which can be accessed at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Managing-Data-Integrity-for-Finance/tree/main/ch07. Save the file on your computer, as we will use it in the Interpreting financial reports section of this chapter. You may proceed once these are ready.