📖 Today’s lesson
Lesson 14: Make the model show its work.
“Step-by-step” forces visible reasoning — for diagnostic work like reconciliation discrepancies, it turns the model from a guesser into a methodical junior whose logic you can audit line by line.
Why this matters: Accounting IS auditable reasoning. A model forced to walk its logic can’t skip to a lazy answer — and you review it exactly like a senior reviews a staff workpaper. Halfway point: this is the skill that separates users from masters.