I think your issue might be the initial load of the DataMart and, once this completes, the DataMart could be updated hourly (to lower CPU usage). But your scenario is correct. If you update only at night, in the morning the financials would be correct but in the afternoon they would only reflect yesterdays values. For most people, this is not an issue.
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