Suspect transactions

Sometimes finzu can’t fully verify a transaction, and it says so instead of pretending otherwise. A transaction is marked suspect when finzu can see something is off but automatic repair (reordering, or nothing at all) can’t resolve it with confidence — for example, a transaction that sits right where a Chain Break occurs, and stays there even after finzu tries nearby reorderings.

Being marked suspect isn’t an accusation that the transaction is wrong. It’s finzu being honest about the limit of what it can verify on its own: “this is the transaction closest to where the math stopped adding up — look here first.”

Why flag instead of hide

The alternative would be silently picking a balance that makes the ledger look clean and moving on. That’s exactly the behavior finzu is built to avoid: an assumption never poses as a fact. A suspect flag costs you a moment’s attention; a silently invented balance costs you trust in every other number in the ledger, because you’d have no way to know which ones were real.

Resolving a suspect transaction usually means checking it against the actual bank statement and correcting whatever finzu couldn’t see on its own — a missing row, a wrong amount, a duplicate. Once it’s fixed, the flag clears because the ledger genuinely reconciles again, not because the flag was dismissed.