Company CFO (Monthly Financial Snapshot)
A monthly CFO workflow that pulls bank, payment, payroll and expense data, computes end-of-month cash via transaction sums, forecasts runway, and writes the leadership report.
What it does
Runs the full monthly financial close for a small company or agency.
- Phase 1 — Pull raw data from bank (Mercury/Plaid), processor (Stripe/Paddle), payroll (Deel/Gusto/Plane) and expense tools (Ramp/Brex) into
data/YYYY-MM/ - Phase 2 — Categorize & reconcile with a trap checklist: cash-vs-credit double counting, internal transfers netting to zero, contractor currency mismatches, missing partner distributions
- Phase 3 — Compute EOM cash using the transaction-sum method (never walkback from a balance snapshot), cross-checked against current balance
- Phase 4 — Update a scenario projector: trailing 3 months + today + 6 forward month-ends, including the intramonth cash low
- Phases 5–7 — write a 9-section snapshot report (TL;DR, cash in/out, payroll, distributions, MRR metrics, projections, recommended actions, open items), refresh memory notes, and ship via targeted git adds + PR
- Four modes:
monthly(default),weekly(15-minute cash pulse),scenario(ad-hoc modeling),pickup(resume prior run)
Who it's for
- Founders / operating partners of bootstrapped SaaS or agencies who own the numbers themselves
- Ops or finance leads who must deliver a consistent cash + runway report to leadership every month
- Teams with API access to their bank, processor and payroll tools, willing to document methodology in a company-specific
CLAUDE.md
Prerequisites: a
COMPANY_CFO_ROOTrepo with your methodology file and wired data sources. Out of scope: tax/accounting advice, fundraising financials, personal finance.
Example uses
- First-of-month close — "run the CFO monthly snapshot": pulls last month, reconciles, locks EOM cash, writes
reports/monthly/2025-05.md, opens a PR. - Monday cash pulse — one line: "Cash $X | Next payroll $Y on <date> | Next inflow $Z | Floor status: OK|WATCH|BREACH".
- Hiring scenario — "what if we hire a $150K/yr engineer in September?" modeled in the projector and saved to
reports/scenarios/.
· · · Install guide · · ·
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Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills/HEAD/skills/company-cfo/SKILL.md What I want: (describe your task here)
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- Download the ZIP with the button below.
- In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
- Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart. Copy the skills/company-cfo folder from the GitHub repo coreyhaines31/makerskills into my ~/.claude/skills/company-cfo/. When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.
Install with a command instead
git clone https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r makerskills/skills/company-cfo ~/.claude/skills/⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.
- Open a terminal (Terminal on macOS, WSL or Git Bash on Windows).
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills.git - Copy the skill into your Claude skills folder:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -r makerskills/skills/company-cfo ~/.claude/skills/ - Create your company finance repo:
mkdir -p ~/code/company-cfo/{reports/monthly,reports/weekly,reports/scenarios,data,scenarios} cd ~/code/company-cfo && git init - Write
~/code/company-cfo/CLAUDE.mddescribing your methodology (data sources, categorization rules, distribution mechanics) — use the skill'sreferences/company-config-template.mdas a starting point. - Important: add
data/,*.jsonl,*.envand.mcp.jsonto.gitignoreso raw bank/payroll exports are never committed. - Set the env var: add
export COMPANY_CFO_ROOT=$HOME/code/company-cfoto~/.zshrc, then restart your shell. - Restart Claude Code and run
/company-cfoor ask for "the monthly cash report". Any data source that isn't wired yet needs API access set up first.