What the tool added, what students can now do faster, preview project rehearsal
What the Polish Added—and What Comes Next
You turned a working automation into a professional, trustworthy tool. Capture what changed, what you can now do faster, and where the unit goes next.
Your Lesson 5 workbook ran the close. Your Lesson 6 workbook explains and defends itself. The three layers you added—validation rules, user-facing controls, and an audit panel—transform a prototype into something a real accountant can trust.
Your polished workbook now has:
- Validation rules that catch bad inputs before the close runs
- A period selector that lets users switch scenarios without touching formulas
- An audit panel that shows inputs, outputs, and verification status at a glance
- A button that refuses to run when validation fails
Before today, switching to a new month meant finding the right cells and hoping you did not break a formula. Now the dropdown handles it. Before today, proving the close ran correctly meant checking formulas by hand. Now the audit panel does it in seconds.
This is the difference between automation that works for you and automation that works for your whole team.
Next lesson is your final guided rehearsal before the group project. Every group will use the same shared workbook data to practice the full workflow: build, test, recommend, and defend.
You will run a peer audit against the Definition of Done, write a recommendation statement, and identify what features from today's polished wizard you must carry into your own project workbook.
What to bring: Your polished Lesson 6 workbook (.xlsm). You will use it as a reference model during the rehearsal.