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Snowflake and Fivetran: ARR bridge under sync lag

Finance closes the month on the ARR bridge that the warehouse can see. Move the sync latency and the report time, then fix the data model one safeguard at a time. Lag is only one of three ways the reported number drifts from the true one.

Scenario

Pipeline

Sync latency

Average hours from a change in the CRM to the row in the warehouse.

Report run, after period end

When finance pulls the closing number.

Data model safeguards

Capture hard deletesChurn recorded as a deleted row reaches the warehouse. Bucket by effective dateA late entry lands in the period it belongs to, not the period it loaded in. Close gateFinance waits until every expected row has arrived. Freshness alertFlags rows still in flight when the report runs.

ARR bridge for the period (in $M)

Reported totalReported increaseReported decreaseTrue value

The axis does not start at zero, so the movements are visible.

What finance would report

Reported closing ARR as hours pass after period end

Bridge line by line

Movement	Reported	True	Difference

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