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FP&A Variance Reporting Package

Written in-house · editorially graded

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Dry-run test passed · Jun 14, 2026

Trigger check passed

Editorially graded · Jun 14, 2026

"Ingests the user's existing budget and actual data (XLSX, CSV, or pasted table) and produces a professional monthly or YTD Budget vs. Actual Variance Report: dual-threshold materiality flags, F/U-labeled variance table, waterfall bridge chart, statistical anomaly highlights, run-rate forecast with low/mid/high confidence range, and structured Driver/Impact/Action commentary per flagged line item. Delivers a presentation-ready PDF for CFO or board review and an editable XLSX workbook for the finance team. Use when a finance professional needs to transform raw budget and actuals — including reforecast inputs, variance driver write-ups, or month-end close packages — into a complete, board-ready variance report without building it from scratch."

What you get

An installable SKILL.md file for your AI assistant. Produces a PDF and an Excel workbook (.xlsx).

Works in
Claude Code · Cursor
Native — drops into .claude/skills/
Copilot · Codex · Gemini CLI
Native — reads .agents/skills/
claude.ai — web & desktop
Upload the .zip in Customize → Skills
ChatGPT
Via a Project — paste into its instructions

See it in action

A real input → output sample

Sample input
I need a variance report for May 2025. Here's the budget and actuals for this month:
| Line Item    | Budget ($) | Actual ($) |
|--------------|------------|------------|
| Revenue      | 200,000    | 210,000    |
| COGS         | 80,000     | 85,000     |
| Salaries     | 90,000     | 98,000     |
| Marketing    | 40,000     | 52,000     |
| Rent         | 15,000     | 15,000     |
| Utilities    | 5,000      | 4,800      |
| T&E          | 10,000     | 13,000     |
| Other OpEx   | 8,000      | 7,200      |
Sample output
Sample output produced by the FP&A Variance Reporting Package skill
Produced by an AI assistant following this skill on the sample input above.
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Example Output
Total Revenue: $210,000 vs. $200,000 → +$10,000 (+5.0%)
Total Expenses: $275,000 vs. $248,000 → -$27,000 (-10.9%)
Net: -$65,000 vs. -$48,000 → -$17,000 (-35.4%)
Flagged items: Marketing +$12,000/+30.0%
**Bottom line:** Expense overruns concentrated in marketing spend that exceeded budget by $12,000 (30%) — recommend immediate review of marketing commitments and budget reforecast.

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