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stable_id: skills/knowledge-work-plugins-finance-skills-variance-analysis-skill
type: skills
title: variance-analysis
summary: 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.
tags:
  - source-knowledge-work-plugins
  - plugin-finance
  - plugin-component-skills
  - plugin-skill
  - category-finance
source_url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/main/finance/skills/variance-analysis/SKILL.md
license: ""
upstream_ref: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/main/finance/skills/variance-analysis/SKILL.md
github_stars: null
github_forks: null
github_is_organization: null
retrieved_at: 2026-06-11T08:31:56.073Z
content_sha256: 467db7de3fb118550d013409254e2d4a9f87385a661e154655bf3431919b0ba1
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