Compliance & Technical
What is Data Validation?
Data validation is the process of verifying that extracted or entered data meets defined rules for accuracy, completeness, format, and consistency before it is accepted into a system.
Explanation
In accounting automation, data validation prevents incorrect data from flowing into your ERP or financial records. Validation rules might include: totals must equal the sum of line items; invoice dates cannot be in the future; vendor codes must exist in the approved vendor list; amounts must be within defined tolerance thresholds. Validation catches errors at the point of extraction — where they are cheapest to fix — rather than after they have been posted to the GL, where correction requires journal entry reversals and investigations.
How Rima relates
Rima Blueprints include configurable validation rules that check extracted data against your business rules before any data is passed to downstream systems.
Learn about automated validationRelated Terms
Data Extraction
The process of retrieving specific data from source documents or systems for further processing.
Exception Handling
The process of identifying, routing, and resolving documents or transactions that don't match expected rules.
Internal Controls
Policies and procedures designed to prevent errors, fraud, and ensure accurate financial reporting.
Audit Trail
A chronological record that traces every action taken on a document or transaction back to its source.
See it in action
Rima automates the manual document workflows accounting teams spend hours on every week.