Monthly Accounts Read

Six numbers, four comparisons, one page — twenty minutes a month, on a fixed date, read by the owner.

What it is

The monthly figures, turned from a fourteen-tab export nobody opens into a twenty-minute ritual the owner performs personally. Fixes the close and the lag first, then reads six numbers — revenue and mix, gross margin, fixed and variable cost, operating profit, cash decomposed, debtors and creditors — against the four comparisons that mean something, forces an explanation for every anomaly above threshold, and ends in dated decisions. For owners and directors who receive management accounts and never read them.

What you receive

your own management accounts made legible — the closing checklist that decides whether the figures are worth reading, the six numbers to read each month with what each means and what moves it, the four comparisons that carry information against the ones that mislead, the anomaly threshold that forces a written explanation, the three questions put to your accountant, and the one-page read a non-financial owner completes in twenty minutes on a fixed date monthly

Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.

Supported models

• Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
• ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
• Gemini
• any capable chat model

People reach for it when

• “how to read my own management accounts every month”
• “what numbers should a small business owner check monthly”
• “profit looks fine but there is no cash in the bank why”
• “questions to ask my accountant about the monthly figures”
• “monthly management accounts review checklist one page”

Record

In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.

License

Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.