When a figure goes stale
Change the source and everything built on top of it is flagged.
The dependency chain
A figure comes from a document page, a spread is built from figures, a ratio from the spread, and the FDD bases from the ratios.
If that page is reviewed and corrected, everything downstream is flagged stale — so nobody cites a number whose source moved under it.
The flag erases nothing and re-runs no calculation. It says only that this number no longer agrees with its source.
What to do
Walk the flagged rows once and re-confirm the spread. Correcting one page usually moves only a few rows.
If a workbench base is flagged too, the staleness arrived from that same upstream path rather than from the workbench itself.
Read this next
- Financial analysisRatios, and what an empty cell meansA ratio that could not be computed says why. It never becomes a zero.
- DocumentsReview a document page by pageSee the extracted text beside the original image, and correct it.
- Financial analysisThe FDD workbenchNormalised bases, the quality-of-earnings bridge, evidence and findings.
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