budget-vs-actual SKILL.md skillA
budget-vs-actual from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/budget-vs-actual@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/budget-vs-actual/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 7,205 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Structures a budget-vs-actual variance analysis that isolates root causes - price/volume/mix decomposition, timing vs structural expense buckets, a materiality screen, and reforecast flags - instead of restating numbers. Use when someone asks "why did we miss budget", "write the variance commentary for the board deck", "explain this expense overrun", or is closing the month and owes narrative on the P&L. Do NOT use to build the budget or plan itself - use budget-builder instead; do NOT use for…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Budget vs. Actual Variance Analysis Variance analysis is diagnostic, not descriptive. A report that says revenue was 8% below budget is not analysis. Analysis says why, which team or product drove it, whether it is recoverable, and what it means for the full-year forecast. The costly failure is a wall of explanations for immaterial noise that buries the one structural miss the leadership team needed to act on. ## Operating procedure ### Step 1: Gather inputs 1. The actuals and budget at the same level of account granularity, for the period and YTD. 2. Total monthly revenue budget (it sets the materiality floor). 3. For revenue lines: budgeted and actual units and price by segment, if available. If not, note that decomposition will be directional and label it as such. 4. Known one-offs and timing shifts already identified by the accounting close (pair with month-end-close for the close itself). 5. The audience: internal ops review or board deck. Default: board-ready. ### Step 2: Set up the right columns …
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How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/budget-vs-actual@sha256:f934627eddde769eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 7,205 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 7,167 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 7,199 B | A | view |
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Source
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xbmno7ond3g4ik3j GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/budget-vs-actual GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f934627eddde769eaa0518f94bc39160c1d30c4d1c2b5d9bc0021334cb60debf
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