Finance
Plugin ActiveStreamline finance and accounting workflows, from journal entries and reconciliation to financial statements and variance analysis. Speed up audit prep, month-end close, and keeping your books clean.
To streamline and automate complex finance and accounting workflows, enabling faster month-end closes, audit preparations, and more accurate financial analysis.
Features
- Journal entry preparation and posting
- Account reconciliation (GL, Bank, Intercompany)
- Financial statement generation (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow)
- Variance analysis and decomposition
- SOX compliance testing and control assessment
- Month-end close management
- Integration with financial data sources via MCP
Use Cases
- Booking month-end accruals and standard entries
- Reconciling bank statements or subledgers
- Generating P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statements
- Analyzing budget vs. actual variances
- Preparing for SOX audits and control testing
Non-Goals
- Providing direct financial, tax, or audit advice
- Replacing qualified financial professionals
- Automating the entire financial reporting process without human review
Documentation
- info:Configuration & parameter referenceThe README provides good documentation for commands and skills, and the `.mcp.json` shows configuration details, but specific parameter defaults for commands are not explicitly documented.
Trust
- warning:Issues AttentionThere are 29 open issues and 4 closed issues in the last 90 days, indicating a closure rate below 50% and a high volume of open issues that may signal slow maintainer response.
Installation
First, add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/plugin install finance@knowledge-work-pluginsContains 8 extensions
Skill (8)
Support SOX 404 compliance with control testing methodology, sample selection, and documentation standards. Use when generating testing workpapers, selecting audit samples, classifying control deficiencies, or preparing for internal or external audits.
Manage the month-end close process with task sequencing, dependencies, and status tracking. Use when planning the close calendar, tracking close progress, identifying blockers, or sequencing close activities by day.
Generate financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow) with period-over-period comparison and variance analysis. Use when preparing a monthly or quarterly P&L, closing the books and need to flag material variances, comparing actuals to budget, building a financial summary for leadership review, or looking up GAAP presentation requirements and period-end adjustments.
Prepare journal entries with proper debits, credits, and supporting detail. Use when booking month-end accruals (AP, payroll, prepaid), recording depreciation or amortization, posting revenue recognition or deferred revenue adjustments, or documenting an entry for audit review.
Prepare journal entries with proper debits, credits, and supporting documentation for month-end close. Use when booking accruals, prepaid amortization, fixed asset depreciation, payroll entries, revenue recognition, or any manual journal entry.
Reconcile accounts by comparing GL balances to subledgers, bank statements, or third-party data. Use when performing bank reconciliations, GL-to-subledger recs, intercompany reconciliations, or identifying and categorizing reconciling items.
Generate SOX sample selections, testing workpapers, and control assessments. Use when planning quarterly or annual SOX 404 testing, pulling a sample for a control (revenue, P2P, ITGC, close), building a testing workpaper template, or evaluating and classifying a control deficiency.
Decompose financial variances into drivers with narrative explanations and waterfall analysis. Use when analyzing budget vs. actual, period-over-period changes, revenue or expense variances, or preparing variance commentary for leadership.