Budget Creation & Forecasting

About

The Budget Creation skill provides a rigorous, 6-phase framework for developing annual operating budgets, departmental plans, and rolling forecasts. It integrates the budget-planner agent to build detailed line items while enforcing quality gates that prevent common pitfalls like arbitrary 'top-down' adjustments or undocumented assumptions. Designed for finance teams and department heads, it ensures every budget item is justified, owned, and approved through a transparent, version-controlled audit trail that resists timeline pressure and irrational cost-cutting.

Key Features

• Structured 6-phase workflow from planning to final documentation
• 48 GitHub stars
• Integrated approval management system for multi-level stakeholder sign-off
• Mandatory assumption validation and anti-rationalization checks
• Automated budget-to-actual variance analysis and reasonableness tests
• Support for Zero-Based, Driver-Based, and Incremental methodologies

Use Cases

• Building a comprehensive annual corporate operating budget
• Developing rolling quarterly forecasts with departmental inputs
• Performing detailed year-over-year variance analysis and trend reporting