All very valuable and extremely on point for the person/team who will be taking over the process after the OP. I've had my own very small share of experience d

All very valuable and extremely on point for the person/team who will be taking over the process after the OP. I've had my own very small share of experience delving into existing workflows and teasing out the early/simple cases and only getting into further processing once the basic conditions are met. It can be an interesting challenge to get those who do the current processing to see where efficiencies can be teased out. The level of legal/higher management mandates for significant process changes is something I've never had to deal with, but I've seen the edges of just how crazy the complications can get. (I once did an implementation of Form 1040 handling via spreadsheet... I was surprised to find that proper math REQUIRED a circular reference and iterating to correct numbers.)