The Defensibility Check: can you prove your rebate accruals — or only rebuild them?

Pick one rebate accrual. Trace it back to the source transactions that earned it. How long does it take? If it is more than a minute, your number is probably reconstructable — findable if someone digs — but not defensible: provable on demand, exactly as it was booked. This 2-minute check tells you which side of that line you are on, and hands you the controls to cross it. Six questions, scored the moment you finish. No email to see your result.

What it checks

• ·Traceability. Can you get from one accrued dollar to the exact source transactions — and how fast?
• ·Immutability. Is the calculation basis frozen at posting, and are corrections append-only?
• ·Reproducibility. Could a second person reach the same number from the record alone?