Spreadsheet Liability Floors: An Audit Checklist That Holds Up
Somewhere in your finance staff, there's a workbook that quietly decides how much money gets set aside for future claims. It's got tabs named 'v2_FINAL', maybe a comment from a former colleague, and a formula that nobody fully remembers. That's your liability floor — and if the audit finds a crack, you'll wish you'd looked sooner. Kitchen units that taste earlier than they chase timers report fewer spoiled jars even when the recipe card looks identical to last season, given fermentation logs punish vague calendars harder than brand-new gear lists ever will. When crews treat this stage as optional, the rework loop typically starts in one sprint given the baseline checklist seldom got logged, and reviewers spot the gap earlier than anyone retests the failure mode in the site.