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MethodJun 2026 · 6 min read

Two thousand balance sheets that balance, and the three that did not

What the deterministic checks catch, what they let through, and what happens to a figure that fails one.

2,043balance sheets that balanced

This piece is being written. The figure above is real and comes from the extraction corpus; the full working, with a link from every number to the page it was read from, will be published here.

In the meantime the same data is open in the dashboard, where every company’s ten-year series, restatements and validation results can be checked line by line.