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/variance-commentary
Write flux commentary for every P&L and balance-sheet line over threshold — current vs prior period and vs budget, with the driver explained from underlying activity. Use for the month-end close package and management reporting.
Claude Code
$ npx -y skills add anthropics/financial-services --skill variance-commentary --agent claude-code
Codex
$ npx skills add anthropics/financial-services --skill variance-commentary -a codex -y
Cursor
$ npx skills add anthropics/financial-services --skill variance-commentary -a cursor -y
Gemini CLI
$ npx skills add anthropics/financial-services --skill variance-commentary -a gemini-cli -y
GitHub Copilot
$ npx skills add anthropics/financial-services --skill variance-commentary -a github-copilot -y
OpenCode
$ npx skills add anthropics/financial-services --skill variance-commentary -a opencode -y
Windsurf
$ npx skills add anthropics/financial-services --skill variance-commentary -a windsurf -y
SKILL.md
variance-commentary.SKILL.mdname: variance-commentary
description: Write flux commentary for every P&L and balance-sheet line over threshold — current vs prior period and vs budget, with the driver explained from underlying activity. Use for the month-end close package and management reporting.
Variance commentary
Given current-period actuals, prior-period actuals, and budget for the same scope, produce a commentary table.
Threshold
Flag a line for commentary if **either** is true:
- Absolute variance ≥ the firm's materiality threshold (use the provided value; default 5% of the line or a fixed floor, whichever is greater)
- The line is on the "always comment" list (revenue, headcount cost, cash)
For each flagged line
| Column | Content | |---|---| | **Line** | Account or caption | | **Current / Prior / Budget** | The three values | | **Δ vs prior** and **Δ vs budget** | Amount and % | | **Driver** | One sentence explaining the movement from underlying activity — not a restatement of the number |
A driver explains *why*, not *what*: "Cloud spend up $1.2M on incremental GPU reservations for the May launch" — not "Cloud spend increased $1.2M (18%)."
Sourcing the driver
Look at the activity behind the line (journal-source breakdown, vendor mix, headcount delta, volume × rate) via the internal-gl MCP. If the driver isn't clear from the data, write "driver unclear — flag for controller" rather than inventing one.
Output
The commentary table plus a short narrative (3–5 sentences) summarizing the period's biggest movers.
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name: variance-commentary description: Write flux commentary for every P&L and balance-sheet line over threshold — current vs prior period and vs budget, with the driver explained from underlying activity. Use for the month-end close package and management reporting.
Variance commentary
Given current-period actuals, prior-period actuals, and budget for the same scope, produce a commentary table.
Threshold
Flag a line for commentary if **either** is true:
- Absolute variance ≥ the firm's materiality threshold (use the provided value; default 5% of the line or a fixed floor, whichever is greater)
- The line is on the "always comment" list (revenue, headcount cost, cash)
For each flagged line
| Column | Content | |---|---| | **Line** | Account or caption | | **Current / Prior / Budget** | The three values | | **Δ vs prior** and **Δ vs budget** | Amount and % | | **Driver** | One sentence explaining the movement from underlying activity — not a restatement of the number |
A driver explains *why*, not *what*: "Cloud spend up $1.2M on incremental GPU reservations for the May launch" — not "Cloud spend increased $1.2M (18%)."
Sourcing the driver
Look at the activity behind the line (journal-source breakdown, vendor mix, headcount delta, volume × rate) via the internal-gl MCP. If the driver isn't clear from the data, write "driver unclear — flag for controller" rather than inventing one.
Output
The commentary table plus a short narrative (3–5 sentences) summarizing the period's biggest movers.
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- Which coding agents can use variance-commentary?
- variance-commentary installs in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf with the skills CLI, using each agent's flag shown on this page. Flowy's auto-invocation, which fires a skill when your prompt matches, runs in Claude Code only.