finance-productivity

Generate an income statement with period-over-period comparison and variance analysis

Prepare journal entries with proper debits, credits, and supporting detail

Reconcile GL balances to subledger, bank, or third-party balances

Generate SOX sample selections, testing workpapers, and control assessments

Decompose variances into drivers with narrative explanations and waterfall analysis

Support SOX 404 compliance with control testing methodology, sample selection, and documentation standards. Use when generating testing workpapers, selecting audit samples, classifying control deficiencies, or preparing for internal or external audits.

Manage the month-end close process with task sequencing, dependencies, and status tracking. Use when planning the close calendar, tracking close progress, identifying blockers, or sequencing close activities by day.

Generate income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements with GAAP presentation and period-over-period comparison. Use when preparing financial statements, running flux analysis, or creating P&L reports with variance commentary.

Prepare journal entries with proper debits, credits, and supporting documentation for month-end close. Use when booking accruals, prepaid amortization, fixed asset depreciation, payroll entries, revenue recognition, or any manual journal entry.

Reconcile accounts by comparing GL balances to subledgers, bank statements, or third-party data. Use when performing bank reconciliations, GL-to-subledger recs, intercompany reconciliations, or identifying and categorizing reconciling items.

Task management using a shared TASKS.md file, optimized for finance operations and month-end close workflows. Use when the user asks about their tasks, wants to add/complete tasks, needs help tracking commitments, or is managing close activities. Integrates with the journal-entry-prep skill to extract journal entry tasks from close checklists and meeting notes.

Decompose financial variances into drivers with narrative explanations and waterfall analysis. Use when analyzing budget vs. actual, period-over-period changes, revenue or expense variances, or preparing variance commentary for leadership.