Citation Source and Traceability for Cosmetics Financial Report Analysis

Cosmetics financial report data mainly comes from publicly scheduled reports of domestic and overseas listed beauty groups, official operational data

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Cosmetics financial report data mainly comes from publicly scheduled reports of domestic and overseas listed beauty groups, official operational data disclosed by brand parties, and public retail data from third-party industry monitoring institutions. Update cycles are divided into quarterly, annual, and monthly. Quarterly reports update every 3 months. Annual reports update once per year. Monthly channel data for some brands updates each month. Documents are mostly multi-page PDF or structured table files. They include business segment revenue, cost structure, channel proportion, number of SKUs, and other content. Fields include business segment name, revenue amount, expense amount, number of SKUs, and other content. Units are mostly ten thousand yuan and individual units.

Multi-source and heterogeneous data sources require support for parallel association with multiple knowledge bases, covering listed financial reports, brand official data, and third-party monitoring data. This avoids missing valid information from different channels. Data sources with different update cycles need independent trigger update rules configured. This ensures the timeliness of quarterly, annual, and monthly data matches business query requirements. Documents with a high proportion of structured tables require optimized table parsing recall logic. This prevents incomplete cited content caused by incorrect splitting. The detailed subdivision attributes of business fields require configuring unified field mapping rules. This aligns business fields with the same name across different data sources, ensuring the accuracy of traceability information.

Configuration Settings

Configuration ItemRecommended ValueRationale
multi_knowledge_base_enabletrueCosmetics financial report data sources cover listed financial reports, brand official data, and third-party monitoring data. Multiple knowledge bases must be associated simultaneously to obtain complete information
recall_top_kTop 8 entriesCosmetics financial reports contain data across multiple business segments. A sufficient number of recalled entries is needed to cover cited content from different segments, avoiding missing key information
similarity_threshold0.75–0.85Cosmetics financial reports have high levels of field subdivision. A moderate threshold must be set to filter low-relevance recall results, while retaining matching content for detailed business segments
PARSE_TABLE_ENABLEtrueCosmetics financial report documents primarily use structured tables as their content format. Enabling table parsing preserves the original data structure, improving citation accuracy
knowledge_base_update_cron0 0 2 * * *Set daily triggers for monthly updated brand data, and quarterly triggers for quarterly financial reports. Cron expressions can flexibly adapt to update cycles of different data sources
field_alignment_enabletrueBusiness field naming varies across different data sources. Enabling field alignment rules unifies the display format of traceability information, avoiding confusion

The parameter values provided on this page are common starting points for configuration. Actual values are affected by material format, data volume, and business rules. Specific issues require specific analysis. Testing on self-provided samples is recommended before finalizing.

Three Common Mistakes

  • Phenomenon: When viewing knowledge base citations in chat responses, an error "Failed to load citation source" pops up, or traceability fields show empty. Cause: The multi_knowledge_base_enable configuration is not enabled. Traceability information associated with multiple knowledge bases cannot be generated normally.
  • Phenomenon: Recalled cited content only covers a single business segment, and cannot fully meet financial report query needs. Cause: The value of recall_top_k is too low, and not enough entries related to detailed business segments are recalled.
  • Phenomenon: Cited content contains scattered table rows, and cannot restore the structured table structure of the original financial report. Cause: The PARSE_TABLE_ENABLE configuration is not enabled. Structured tables are incorrectly split into scattered text fragments.

How to Confirm the Configuration Is Correct

  • Access the multi-knowledge base management interface, confirm all target knowledge bases covering listed financial reports, brand official data, and third-party monitoring data have been added, and the multi_knowledge_base_enable configuration is enabled.
  • Initiate a financial report query test, verify whether the number of recalled results matches the number of business segments, and adjust the value of recall_top_k to cover all relevant segments.
  • Upload a structured table file of cosmetics financial reports, confirm the parsed content retains the original table structure, with no scattered split row data.
  • View the knowledge base update log, confirm knowledge bases of different data sources have completed scheduled updates according to the preset knowledge_base_update_cron expression.

Question material comes from public community discussions. Configuration values are common starting points and should be measured against your own samples. Verified on 2026-09-14.