Field notes
Notes from the reporting desk
Short pieces on records packs, exhibits, and the practical limits of a fraud detection letter. Written for people who already hold a file.
Field notes
Short pieces on records packs, exhibits, and the practical limits of a fraud detection letter. Written for people who already hold a file.
Counsel will ask which rows, which extract, and who pulled it. If those answers are only in a chat thread, the findings letter is already leaking.
One timeline on the table can end an argument. A twelfth colour plate usually starts a new one about the legend.
Exception lists feel industrious. For a claims anomaly briefing they are usually the wrong first page. Dates of loss against invoice dates are slower and more useful.
A committee can pass around a numbered letter. It cannot pass around a 40,000-line export without someone performing certainty they do not have.
A usable pack names the MID, the window, the refund column, and who pulled the extract — not a folder of everything finance ever exported.