Account Reconciliation
Tie the GL to the subledger, the bank, or a third party, with every reconciling item categorised and aged.
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What this skill does
Reconciles an account by comparing the GL balance to whatever backs it — a subledger, a bank statement, a third-party report — and turns the difference into a categorised, aged list of reconciling items.
What it does
- Compares the GL balance to the subledger, bank, or third-party source
- Categorises every reconciling item by type and likely cause
- Ages outstanding items and flags the ones past your threshold
- Applies escalation thresholds so the right differences get raised
When to use it
- Month-end bank reconciliations are due
- A GL account will not tie to its subledger
- Intercompany balances are out and you need to find where
- An old reconciling item has been carried forward too long
What to have ready
- The GL balance for the account and period
- The supporting statement or subledger detail
- Your materiality and escalation thresholds, if you have them
- Any known timing differences or items in transit
How to use it
- Download it with the button above. You'll sign in with a work email — that's how the creator knows who is using their skill.
- Copy the install prompt from the "Run it in Claude" box, and paste it into Claude along with the file. Claude installs the skill, fills in your firm's details where the file has
[BRACKETED]placeholders, and runs a quick test with you. - Then just ask in plain English. Claude picks the skill up on its own when a request matches it. Anything it still needs, it asks you for — it won't invent a number.
"Use the Reconciliation skill on our operating cash account for December. Bank statement and GL detail attached."
What you get back
A completed reconciliation: the two balances, every reconciling item categorised and aged, the unexplained residual stated plainly, and the items that need escalation.
Good to know
- Output quality tracks input quality. A missing figure is flagged as missing — it is never estimated to fill a gap.
- Every draft is a starting point for your own review, not a finished decision.
- Runs anywhere Claude does: the Claude app, Claude Desktop, or Claude Code.
- Part of the Anthropic Finance plugin. Built for corporate accounting, and it applies directly to a lending shop's own books and to fund-level accounting.
Source & credit
Imported from Anthropic's open-source knowledge-work-plugins library (Apache-2.0). Author: Anthropic — https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins. The author's content is unmodified apart from a legal disclaimer appended at the end of the package. Full credit to the author. Anthropic did not submit this listing and does not endorse it — the original is free at the link above.
Legal disclaimer
This skill drafts; it does not decide. Its output is not legal, tax, accounting, appraisal, or investment advice, and using it creates no attorney-client, fiduciary, or advisory relationship. Nothing it produces is a commitment to lend or an offer to sell a security. Verify every number, date, citation, and conclusion against the source documents, and have a qualified professional licensed in the relevant jurisdiction review the work before you rely on it or send it to a borrower, investor, counterparty, or regulator. Laws, rates, and market data change. The final work product is yours.
Inside this skill
The actual file you get. Members can read it in full before saving it.
name: reconciliation description: Reconcile accounts by comparing GL balances to subledgers, bank statements, or third-party data. Use when performing bank reconciliations, GL-to-subledger recs, intercompany reconciliations, or identifying and categorizing reconciling items. argument-hint: "<account> [period]"
Reconciliation
Important: This skill assists with reconciliation workflows but does not provide financial advice. All reconciliations should be reviewed by qualified financial professionals before sign-off.
Methodology and best practices for account reconciliation, including GL-to-subledger, bank reconciliations, and intercompany. Covers reconciling item categorization, aging analysis, and escalation.
Reconciliation Types
GL to Subledger Reconciliation
Compare the general ledger control account balance to the detailed subledger balance.
Common accounts:
- Accounts receivable (GL control vs AR subledger aging)
- Accounts payable (GL control vs AP subledger aging)
- Fixed assets (GL control vs fixed asset register)
- Inventory (GL control vs inventory valuation report)
- Prepaid expenses (GL control vs prepaid amortization schedule)
- Accrued liabilities (GL control vs accrual detail schedules)
Process:
- Pull GL balance for the control account as of period end
- Pull subledger trial balance or detail report as of the same date
- Compare totals — they should match if posting is real-time
- Investigate any differences (timing of posting, manual entries not reflected, interface errors)
Common causes of differences:
- Manual journal entries posted to the control account but not reflected in the subledger
- Subledger transactions not yet interfaced to the GL
- Timing differences in batch posting
- Reclassification entries in the GL without subledger adjustment
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Examination record
Run it in Claude
- Copy the install command above
- Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
- It writes the skill in, fills in your firm’s details, and test-runs it with you
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