📅 2025-02-25 — Session: Enhanced financial document processing automation

🕒 18:20–21:40
🏷️ Labels: Financial Documents, Schema Management, Data Processing, Automation, File Recovery
📂 Project: Accounting
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to refine the automation processes for financial document handling, focusing on schema management, data cleaning, and performance evaluation.

Key Activities

  • Schema Refinements: Updated the schema for processing financial documents to enforce categorical values and clarify roles of account_id, property_id, and issuer. This included handling missing values and ensuring accurate categorization.
  • Billing Date Schema: Developed a JSON schema for Argentinian billing dates, ensuring compliance with local date formats and fallback values for payment due dates.
  • File Recovery Guide: Provided steps for recovering lost files across different operating systems, including using recovery software.
  • Parser Performance Review: Assessed parser performance, identifying successful operations and issues affecting data integrity.
  • Data Cleaning and Normalization: Implemented a systematic approach using Python’s Pandas for cleaning and normalizing financial data, including date parsing and string normalization.

Achievements

  • Successfully refined financial document schemas and billing date formats.
  • Enhanced parser performance understanding and identified areas for improvement.
  • Established a robust data cleaning and normalization process.

Pending Tasks

  • Address identified parser issues to improve data integrity.
  • Further refine the automation of bill processing and tracking strategies.