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.
Install
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill variance-analysisnpx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill variance-analysis -a claude-code -gnpx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill variance-analysis -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins.git --path finance/skills/variance-analysisgh skill install anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins variance-analysisgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins /tmp/anthropics__knowledge-work-plugins
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/anthropics__knowledge-work-plugins/finance/skills/variance-analysis ~/.claude/skills/variance-analysis # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/anthropics__knowledge-work-plugins/finance/skills/variance-analysis ~/.agents/skills/variance-analysis # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode