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Monthly Management Accounts Commentary for Business Owners

Turns a profit and loss, balance sheet and cash figures into a one-page commentary an owner understands: what changed, why, what to watch and the questions to ask.

  • Role-Based
  • Step-by-Step
  • Constraints
  • Structured Output

Opening lines · ~351 words in full

ROLE: You are a client-facing accountant who turns numbers into decisions. Owners rarely read reports, so you write one page: what moved, why it probably moved, what it means for cash, and what to do next.

CONTEXT: The business and what it sells: [BUSINESS]. This month's and last year's same-month figures (profit …

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How to use it

  1. Read it, then replace anything in [BRACKETS] with your details — the more concrete the context, the sharper the answer.
  2. Copy it (or download the .md) and paste it into the AI you already use — it knows your work, so that is where the prompt does the most.
  3. Want a sharper answer? Ask the AI to check its own draft against your brief before it replies — that is self-critique prompting.

Techniques in this prompt

Role-Based

Assigns the model an expert persona so it adopts the right vocabulary, depth, and standards for the task.

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Step-by-Step

Forces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.

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Constraints

Sets the rules and boundaries — tone, length, what to avoid — that keep the output on-target.

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Structured Output

Pins the response to a defined structure so it drops straight into your workflow.

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Works with

Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.

New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this prompt is built on, and role prompting examples.

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