Prompts for Accountants

An accountant's week is a close that has to land on day five, a reconciliation that is out by an amount nobody can find, a variance table that needs commentary by tomorrow, a cash forecast the owner will make decisions on, a client who has still not sent the bank statements, and an audit that starts in three weeks. This is a library of 24 prompts for that work: period close, reconciliations, reporting and commentary, forecasting and budget, talking to clients and management, and controls and audit.

Each prompt tells the model what angle to take, what to work from, what structure to return and the one constraint that separates a professional answer from a generic one. They are built for the parts that actually go wrong: a close checklist with dependencies and a proof for every task, a difference hunt that tests the arithmetic signatures before you start staring at transactions, commentary that separates volume from price from timing instead of restating the number in words, a weekly cash forecast with the low point and the week it happens, a journal review that questions round numbers and blank descriptions, and the note that explains the report to someone who does not read financials. Every prompt has a when to use line and a line on how to judge the answer, and the file ends with chains that run these prompts end to end.

Read this before you buy. This is not tax, audit or accounting advice. The model does not know the current rates, thresholds, deadlines or standards in your jurisdiction, and it will state a rule with confidence when it has invented it. Several prompts are written to refuse a treatment or a citation and to tell you what to confirm instead, and every figure and interpretation must be checked by a qualified person against the actual data and the actual standard before it reaches a client, a director or a filing. One time purchase, yours forever, nothing to install: a single plain text file that works in Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot.