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A. Business Case
1. Problem Statement
The current problem affecting Endothon Finance's applicant-facing web app stems from
incorrect business logic when generating loan profiles. Specifically, when a business has over
five years of operational history, the web app incorrectly requests financial data from the first
five fiscal years rather than the most recent five completed fiscal years, excluding the current
year.
For businesses under five years old, the web app is expected to gather available financial
history and supplement the remaining years with projected financial data to reach five years.
However, it is currently unclear whether this logic functions correctly since the primary issue
raised in the internal ticket focuses on the incorrect data for older businesses.
This issue results in inaccurate loan profiles being generated and shared with partnered lending
vendors, leading to delays in application processing and potential mismatches between
applicant qualifications and lender criteria. The issue has been assigned to the web app team
and categorized as a medium-priority bug, emphasizing the need for a timely fix to ensure data
accuracy and support vendor trust in the loan profiling process.
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2. Business requirements
Business Requirement 1:
Endothon Finance requires businesses with over five years of operational history to provide the
five most recent completed fiscal years of financial data, excluding the current year. This
ensures lenders receive accurate and up-to-date insights into a business's current financial
health. However, the web app violates this requirement by retrieving financial records from the
first five years of a business's existence (e.g., 2000–2004 for a company established in 2000).
This results in outdated data for loan profiles, undermining the credibility of loan qualification
assessments.
Business Requirement 2:
For businesses with less than five years of operation, the app must collect all available financial
history and generate forecasted data to complete a five-year financial profile. This allows
lenders to evaluate both historical performance and expected growth. Although this logic is
intended to be in place, the current system lacks verification mechanisms to ensure that
forecast data is correctly requested and captured. This creates uncertainty around whether
newer businesses are being evaluated with complete and accurate information.
3. In-scope action items
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WGU D480 Task 1 Software Design Plan |Latest
Update with Complete Solution
WGU Student ID XXXXXXXXX
A. Business Case
1. Problem Statement
The current problem affecting Endothon Finance's applicant-facing web app stems from
incorrect business logic when generating loan profiles. Specifically, when a business has over
five years of operational history, the web app incorrectly requests financial data from the first
five fiscal years rather than the most recent five completed fiscal years, excluding the current
year.
For businesses under five years old, the web app is expected to gather available financial
history and supplement the remaining years with projected financial data to reach five years.
However, it is currently unclear whether this logic functions correctly since the primary issue
raised in the internal ticket focuses on the incorrect data for older businesses.
This issue results in inaccurate loan profiles being generated and shared with partnered lending
vendors, leading to delays in application processing and potential mismatches between
applicant qualifications and lender criteria. The issue has been assigned to the web app team
and categorized as a medium-priority bug, emphasizing the need for a timely fix to ensure data
accuracy and support vendor trust in the loan profiling process.
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2. Business requirements
Business Requirement 1:
Endothon Finance requires businesses with over five years of operational history to provide the
five most recent completed fiscal years of financial data, excluding the current year. This
ensures lenders receive accurate and up-to-date insights into a business's current financial
health. However, the web app violates this requirement by retrieving financial records from the
first five years of a business's existence (e.g., 2000–2004 for a company established in 2000).
This results in outdated data for loan profiles, undermining the credibility of loan qualification
assessments.
Business Requirement 2:
For businesses with less than five years of operation, the app must collect all available financial
history and generate forecasted data to complete a five-year financial profile. This allows
lenders to evaluate both historical performance and expected growth. Although this logic is
intended to be in place, the current system lacks verification mechanisms to ensure that
forecast data is correctly requested and captured. This creates uncertainty around whether
newer businesses are being evaluated with complete and accurate information.
3. In-scope action items
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