📅 2025-10-21 — Session: Revamped Accounting and Data Integration Pipeline
🕒 19:40–22:15
🏷️ Labels: Accounting, Data Integration, Financial Management, Automation, ETL
📂 Project: Accounting
Session Goal
The session aimed to revamp the accounting pipeline and integrate a hybrid data architecture to enhance financial data management and reporting.
Key Activities
- Developed recommendations for transitioning from file logistics to financial intelligence, identifying bottlenecks in the current accounting subsystem.
- Provided a structured briefing template for the ‘Accounting Pipeline Revamp – Q4 2025’.
- Designed a hybrid data architecture for financial document management, utilizing stable IDs and contracts across storage layers.
- Mapped sheets to the hybrid architecture, specifying roles and sync contracts.
- Set up a spreadsheet index and configured automation using Apps Script.
- Established an initial working contract for data integration from Sheets to a relational database, detailing SQL schema and ETL processes.
- Extended the Bills-Payments-Txns system to handle complex billing scenarios.
- Clarified the distinction between payments and transactions in financial systems.
- Defined database schema and ingestion pipeline for financial statements, focusing on reconciliation and tracking.
- Outlined a filename convention for document management to support ETL processes.
- Planned an end-to-end data ingestion strategy, including a sprint checklist and sanity queries.
Achievements
- Successfully outlined a comprehensive plan for revamping the accounting pipeline and integrating data systems.
- Established clear guidelines and templates for documentation and execution.
- Enhanced understanding of financial systems through detailed schema and process mapping.
Pending Tasks
- Implement the hybrid data architecture and test integration workflows.
- Finalize and distribute the ‘Accounting Pipeline Revamp – Q4 2025’ briefing.
- Monitor and adjust the ingestion pipeline based on initial data processing results.