FP&A Monthly Reporting Kit: Guide, Excel Toolkit and AI Prompts
Get the monthly management pack out on time, with commentary people read. A 10-step guide, an Excel budget vs. actual toolkit and 15 AI prompts.
Get the monthly pack out on time, with commentary people read.
Reporting week isn't long because the analysis is hard. It's long because of how the work lands: final numbers that arrive late, a pack rebuilt from scratch, owners chased for the "why" the night before review, and notes rewritten three times. This kit fixes the way the work lands, so the pack goes out on a set day and you still log off on time.
What's inside
The Reporting-Week Survival Plan (PDF, 18 pages). A 10-step method, from the handoff with accounting to a one-page summary leadership actually reads.
Reporting-Week Toolkit (Excel, 7 tabs). Reporting calendar, budget vs. actual with materiality flags, commentary tracker and a summary tab that writes the email.
Reporting-Week AI Prompt Pack (PDF, 15 prompts). Prompts for owner questions, first-draft commentary and the summary email, with guardrails: you give AI the facts, a person checks every number.
What Changes?
- Preliminary numbers from accounting on a set day, so you start before the books are final
- Owner questions out on BD3 or BD4, with answers due before you write, not the night before review
- Only the lines over both thresholds get a note, and every note follows one formula
- A first draft from AI in minutes, checked line by line against your variance table
- A one-page summary email that reads on a phone, and one CFO review instead of three