How does the narrative generation work?

The skill provides a structured framework to generate specific, quantified, and causal explanations for variances, ensuring commentary is actionable and avoids circular reasoning.

What is Price/Volume decomposition?

It is a fundamental finance technique that separates the total variance of a metric into the portion caused by changes in quantity sold (Volume) and the portion caused by changes in unit cost or revenue (Price).

Does this skill provide automated financial advice?

No, this skill is a workflow assistant for financial analysis. All outputs and narratives should be validated by qualified financial professionals before being used in official reporting or decision-making.

Can I use this for payroll and compensation analysis?

Yes, the skill includes specialized decomposition models for headcount growth, compensation rates, mix shifts, and timing variances like hiring delays or attrition.

Financial Variance Analysis

Name: Financial Variance Analysis
Author: lilbom32

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Analíticas y Monitorización

Decomposes financial variances into actionable drivers with narrative explanations and structured waterfall analysis.

This specialized skill enables Claude to perform deep-dive financial variance analysis by breaking down discrepancies between budget, actual, and forecast data. It utilizes industry-standard techniques like price-volume-mix decomposition and headcount compensation analysis to pinpoint specific business drivers. Designed for finance teams and business analysts, the skill provides frameworks for setting materiality thresholds, generating concise narrative commentary, and constructing text-based waterfall charts to visualize financial bridges for stakeholders.

Características Principales

010 GitHub stars

02Text-based waterfall chart and bridge table construction

03Multi-period budget, actual, and forecast comparisons

04Materiality threshold and investigation priority frameworks

05Standardized financial narrative and commentary generation

06Advanced Price/Volume and Rate/Mix decomposition

Casos de Uso

01Decomposing payroll and headcount variances to optimize people-cost analysis

02Identifying specific drivers behind revenue or margin fluctuations

03Generating executive-ready budget vs. actual (BvA) variance reports

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add lilbom32/ketnoitrithuc variance-analysis

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

Características Principales

010 GitHub stars

02Text-based waterfall chart and bridge table construction

03Multi-period budget, actual, and forecast comparisons

04Materiality threshold and investigation priority frameworks

05Standardized financial narrative and commentary generation

06Advanced Price/Volume and Rate/Mix decomposition

Casos de Uso

01Decomposing payroll and headcount variances to optimize people-cost analysis

02Identifying specific drivers behind revenue or margin fluctuations

03Generating executive-ready budget vs. actual (BvA) variance reports

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add lilbom32/ketnoitrithuc variance-analysis

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT