Executive Report — Board-Ready Financials

Last updated: April 17, 2026

Produces a board-ready or CFO-ready financial statement from Numeric. Strips close-management metadata, collapses child account detail into executive groups, rolls up flux commentary into one-liner narratives, and outputs a presentation-quality Excel or PDF.

Before You Begin

  1. Numeric MCP and Toolkit connected.

  2. IS and (optionally) BS reports for the target period.

  3. Flux commentary populated if you want narrative rollups.

Think of it as the opposite of a close-management view — this is what you hand to the board.

How It Works

  1. Ask Claude for the executive report. Example prompts:

    • "Build the board report."

    • "CFO-ready income statement."

    • "Collapse the P&L into executive groups."

    • "Investor-deck financials for Q1."

  2. Claude confirms expected outputs and behavior: workspace, period, entity scope (single or consolidated), output format (Excel or PDF), comparison (prior month, prior year, budget vs actual, or none).

  3. Claude retrieves and maps IS, BS, chart of accounts, and flux tasks in parallel. Claude maps every account to larger financial statement categories and group — never silently drops anything.

  4. Claude also rolls up flux commentary for any group with material variance (>5% or >$10K).

  5. Claude produces a formatted Excel (default) or PDF output.

What You Get

A polished workbook or presentation artifact, with

  • IS collapsed to executive groups — Revenue, COGS, Gross Profit, R&D, S&M, G&A, Operating Income, Other, Tax, Net Income. Inline Gross Margin %. EBITDA reconciliation block after Net Income.

  • BS collapsed to executive groups — Cash, AR, Total Current Assets, Fixed Assets, Total Assets, AP, Accrued, Deferred Revenue, Total Liabilities, Equity.

  • Period-over-period variance columns — $ and % with red for unfavorable.

  • One-line flux narratives directly under any group with material variance (>5% or >$10K).

  • Presentation formatting — Numeric brand colors, Arial, scale shorthand ($66.0M, $341.3K), parentheses for negatives, em dash for zero.

  • Account Mapping Notes at the bottom — anything ambiguous is listed, never silently dropped.

Troubleshooting

Issue

What to Check

Flux commentary missing

Only groups with populated flux get a narrative. Run Auto-Draft Flux Explanations first for fuller coverage.

Wrong group mapping

Check the "Account Mapping Notes" section — any ambiguous accounts are listed with their chosen mapping. Re-run with manual overrides if needed. Update the skill for future refernce.

PDF formatting off

PDF uses HTML → PDF pipeline. Excel is more reliable; prefer it unless you specifically need PDF.

FAQ

  • PDF or Excel? Excel by default. PDF on request.

  • Custom groupings? Yes — ask Claude to update the skill's group mapping.

  • Industry-specific (manufacturing, insurance)? Ask Claude to adjust the default groupings.

Download & Install

Download the full Numeric Toolkit (15 community skills, including this one):

🔗 numeric-mcp-toolkit.zip

Install via Claude Code CLI:

/plugin marketplace add geoff-lew/numeric-toolkit
/plugin install numeric-mcp-toolkit

Direct link to the Skill

🔗 executive-report.skill

In Cowork, go to Customize in the left sidebar, click +, select the Skills tab, and click Install to upload the downloaded skill file.

Need help? Reach out to support@numeric.io.