Reconciliation & variance analysis

Each period an accountant reconciles the general ledger to subledgers, bank, and processors, root-causes every break, and writes flux commentary a reviewer re-foots — then lands one approval where you sign off the memo.

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What it installs

Agents 2

  • Accountant

    Owns the recurring general-ledger, bank, and processor reconciliation, break-tracing, and variance commentary each period.

  • Reconciliation Reviewer

    Reviews the reconciliations and variance memo for tie-out, root-cause quality, and driver specificity before it reaches the human.

Teams 1

  • Reconciliation Team

    An accountant who reconciles and writes the commentary, and a reviewer who re-foots and gates it.

Workflows 1

  • Reconciliation & variance

    Reconcile and trace breaks, write the variance commentary, review and re-foot, assemble the memo, and approve.

Goals 1

  • Accounts reconciled, variances explained every period

    Keep accounts reconciled and material movements explained on the chosen cadence.

Skills 5

  • reconciliation

    Reconcile the general ledger to subledger, bank, and intercompany; categorize reconciling items into timing, adjustment-required, and investigation; age open items and apply escalation thresholds. Adapted from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/reconciliation.

  • variance-analysis

    Decompose variances into price/volume, rate/mix, headcount/comp, and spend-category drivers; set materiality thresholds; write decision-useful narratives; and present a text waterfall bridge. Adapted from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/variance-analysis.

  • gl-recon

    Reconcile the general ledger to subledger for a period — normalize both sides to a common key, full-outer-join to bucket each row, classify each break by likely cause, and output a sorted break report plus a summary. Adapted from anthropics/financial-services/gl-recon.

  • break-trace

    Root-cause a single reconciliation break — pull both sides, diff the attributes, write a one-sentence cause, and return owner, expected clear date, and action (monitor/adjust/raise-ticket/suppress). Adapted from anthropics/financial-services/break-trace.

  • variance-commentary

    Write flux commentary for every P&L and balance-sheet line over threshold — current vs prior and vs budget, with the driver sourced from underlying activity, not a restatement of the number. Adapted from anthropics/financial-services/variance-commentary.

Schedules 1

  • Reconciliation run

    Runs reconciliation and variance analysis on the schedule you choose.

Requirements

What this template expects to do its job. Task Machine does not verify these — you decide whether your setup is ready.

  • Browser access to your accounting tool — The agent works in your accounting tool (QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite) through its web interface in your browser to pull the general ledger, subledger aging, and bank statements, and pauses for your approval before making any changes. Until you connect it, it works from attached exports and the relevant document.
  • Period-end source data — Trial balance and general ledger detail, the subledger aging or detail report for each account under recon (AR, AP, fixed assets, prepaids, accruals), bank statements, the prior-period reconciliation, and the budget for the current period.

Get started

Install Reconciliation & variance analysis and run it with approvals.

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