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Managing Data Integrity for Finance

By : Jane Sarah Lat
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Managing Data Integrity for Finance

By: Jane Sarah Lat

Overview of this book

Data integrity management plays a critical role in the success and effectiveness of organizations trying to use financial and operational data to make business decisions. Unfortunately, there is a big gap between the analysis and management of finance data along with the proper implementation of complex data systems across various organizations. The first part of this book covers the important concepts for data quality and data integrity relevant to finance, data, and tech professionals. The second part then focuses on having you use several data tools and platforms to manage and resolve data integrity issues on financial data. The last part of this the book covers intermediate and advanced solutions, including managed cloud-based ledger databases, database locks, and artificial intelligence, to manage the integrity of financial data in systems and databases. After finishing this hands-on book, you will be able to solve various data integrity issues experienced by organizations globally.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: Foundational Concepts for Data Quality and Data Integrity for Finance
5
Part 2: Pragmatic Solutions to Manage Financial Data Quality and Data Integrity
10
Part 3: Modern Strategies to Manage the Data Integrity of Finance Systems

Technical requirements

Before we dive in, we must have the following in place:

  • A web browser
  • Any text editor (such as Notepad or Sublime Text) where we can store the specific values (for example, the digest) that will be used in the hands-on solutions in this chapter

The PartiQL queries (a SQL-compatible query language used in QLDB and certain databases) are saved in the official Packt GitHub repository and can be accessed from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Managing-Data-Integrity-for-Finance/tree/main/ch09.

Note

In this chapter, we will be setting up a managed ledger database resource on AWS. If this is your first time using AWS, feel free to check out the following video to help you get started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9__D53WsUs.

Once these are ready, you may proceed.