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| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Actual | Posted accounting activity included within the applicable date cutoff |
| Allocation | A reviewed amount of an actual payment assigned to an expectation |
| Assurance | The result’s support and verification status, separate from its numerical outcome |
| Baseline | A preserved outlook used for a later comparison |
| Bridge | Ordered calculation steps explaining the change between compatible results |
| Candidate | A proposed expectation or pattern that still needs review |
| Cash floor | A minimum balance constraint; month-end and dated-weekly checks have different resolution |
| Company state | Approved business facts, obligations, policies, mappings, assumptions and decisions |
| Coverage | An account/date assertion about how complete imported activity is |
| Driver | A fixed or formula-based receipt or spending assumption with dates and a cadence |
| Evidence | Original source material and the observations traceable to it |
| Expectation / occurrence | A preserved obligation identity with an amount, date and settlement history |
| Final settlement | An explicit review that no further fulfillment is expected, including any variance |
| Financial revision | A version of financial state used to detect changes and coordinate calculation work |
| Forecast | Calculated future activity based on supported drivers and outstanding expectations |
| Goal | A versioned target or constraint, not an input that creates financial activity |
| Headroom | The calculated margin above or below a target |
| Lineage | References connecting a result to formulas, journals, decisions and source evidence |
| Manual condition | A business constraint requiring human assessment rather than a cash calculation |
| Plan | A preserved approved outlook for a particular goal version |
| Preview token | A fingerprint used to reject approval of inputs that changed after inspection |
| Provisional | A usable calculation with unresolved support or completeness limitations |
| Recognition | The timing of revenue or expense separately from the related cash payment |
| Recurrence policy | Bounded approval to capture future obligations from a reviewed schedule |
| Residual | The part of a numerical change that an attribution bridge does not explain |
| Reversal | A linked correcting journal that preserves the original posting’s history |
| Scenario | Proposed driver or model changes evaluated without automatically applying them |
| Self-review | A preserved sign-off by the same person who prepared the report |
| Sign-off | An immutable record of the reviewed report, tasks, identities and stated judgment |
| Stale | Inputs or versions changed since the relevant preview, approval or report |
| Unplaced cash | Overdue or undated projected cash excluded from dated weekly totals |
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