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CFO Prompt Challenge
One production-grade Claude prompt shared free on LinkedIn every day for 10 days. Test it with your own data. Share your results. Then download all 10 as a free bundle.
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Join finance executives testing AI prompts live on LinkedIn
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HOW IT WORKS
Three steps. Ten days. Real results.
No theory. No slides. Just production-grade prompts you can test with your own financial data today.
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Register & Download
Enter your email above to receive the full 10-prompt bundle as a PDF. Each prompt is ready to paste into Claude — no setup required.
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Test Each Prompt
Follow along on LinkedIn as one prompt is shared publicly each day. Paste it into Claude with your own data and run the analysis. See the difference a structured prompt makes.
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Share Your Results
Post your output on LinkedIn and tag #CFOPromptChallenge. The best results get featured. The community learns together.
THE PROMPTS
10 Domains. 10 Days. One per day.
Each prompt covers a different domain of the modern CFO office. Day 1 is live now — register to get all 10 immediately.
DAY 2
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FP&A
Rolling Forecast
Coming Soon
DAY 3
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CONTROLLERSHIP
Month-End Close Checklist
Coming Soon
DAY 4
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FINANCIAL REPORTING
Board Pack Narrative
Coming Soon
DAY 5
TREASURY
13-Week Cash Flow Forecast
Coming Soon
DAY 6
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TAX
Transfer Pricing Documentation
Coming Soon
DAY 7
RISK & CONTROLS
Risk Identification & Assessment
Coming Soon
DAY 8
COMMERCIAL FINANCE
Pricing Analysis
Coming Soon
DAY 9
M&A
Quality of Earnings (QoE) Analysis
Coming Soon
DAY 10
CAPITAL ALLOCATION
Business Case Development & Approval
Coming Soon
WHAT YOU GET
The 10-Prompt Bundle — Free
Register once and receive everything below as a single PDF, ready to use in Claude immediately.
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10 Full Prompts
All five components for each prompt: Task, Context Files, Success Brief, Finance Rules, and Execution Gate where applicable.
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Context File Checklists
A list of the exact files you need to prepare before running each prompt — so you get the right output first time.
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Quality Checklist
A post-output review checklist for each prompt — what to check before you use the output professionally.
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Quick-Start Guide
A one-page guide to the five-component prompt architecture — so you understand why each part is there.
DAY 1 — LIVE NOW
FP&A Variance Analysis Prompt
This is the full, production-ready prompt — not a teaser. Paste it into Claude with your actuals and budget data and run it today.
Decompose the year-to-date revenue and cost variances between budget and actuals by business unit, product line, and cost category from the data files provided, identify the three most material drivers of each variance, and produce a written commentary suitable for CFO review, so that the CFO has a precise, decision-ready summary of performance against plan that can be presented to the board without further editing.
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Actuals vs. budget data file (Excel/CSV) — P&L by BU, product line, and cost category, current period and YTD
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Budget file (Excel) — original approved budget by the same dimensions as the actuals
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Prior period variance commentary (Word/PDF) — for tone and format reference
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Materiality threshold definition — the minimum variance value or percentage that requires written explanation
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OUTPUT FORMAT Variance commentary document (2–3 pages) with a structured exception table; formatted for direct insertion into the board pack without reformatting.
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INTENDED READER CFO / FP&A Director — senior executive who will present this directly to the board; expects precision and no hedge language.
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READER'S REACTION The CFO should be able to present the variance commentary to the board without editing a single line.
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DOES NOT SOUND LIKE Hedge language ("it appears", "it seems"), vague directional statements ("costs were higher"), or invented benchmarks not present in the data.
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SUCCESS MEANS Every material variance has a written explanation with a named driver; the three most material variances are ranked by size; the commentary is free of hedge language.
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Evidence gate: Do not assert or conclude anything not directly supported by the input data. Flag any data gaps explicitly before proceeding.
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Number formatting: Use thousands separators, two decimal places for rates and percentages, currency prefix as provided in the data.
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Confidentiality: Do not include company names, counterparty names, or identifiable information unless explicitly provided in the input.
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Professional tone: Output must read as if prepared by a qualified CPA/CFA. No hedging phrases. No consulting buzzwords.
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No fabrication: Never invent prior period numbers, benchmarks, or external data not present in the input files.
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DO NOT begin the analysis yet. First:
1. List the key assumptions you are making about the input data
2. Identify any data gaps that would affect output quality
3. Describe your analytical approach in no more than 5 steps Only begin once I confirm your plan.
FP&A
⚡ Execution Gate
WHO THIS IS FOR
Built for the CFO office — every role, every domain.
The 10 prompts span the full breadth of the modern finance function. If you work in any of these roles, at least three of the 10 prompts are directly relevant to your day-to-day work.
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CFO
Board pack narratives, transformation roadmaps, investor communications.
FP&A Director
Variance analysis, rolling forecasts, budget consolidation.
Controller
Month-end close, reconciliations, technical accounting memos.
Treasurer
Cash flow forecasting, liquidity management, FX hedging.
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Tax Director
Transfer pricing documentation, tax provision, compliance.
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Commercial Finance VP
Pricing analysis, deal support, commercial modelling.
FAQ
Common questions about the challenge.
Everything you need to know before you register.
A free 10-day programme where one production-grade Claude prompt is shared publicly on LinkedIn each day. Each prompt covers a different domain of the CFO office — from FP&A and Controllership to M&A and CFO Leadership. Finance executives are invited to test the prompt with their own data and share their results.
A CFO-grade prompt is a structured AI instruction built with five components: a precise Task, a list of Context Files, a Success Brief (what good output looks like), Finance Rules (binding governance instructions), and an optional Execution Gate (a structured pause before analysis begins). These components eliminate the failure modes of informal AI requests in a finance context.
No. All 10 prompts are shared free on LinkedIn. The 10-prompt bundle PDF is also free — download it by registering your email above. The full 170-prompt book (257 pages, 13 CFO domains) is available as part of the AIforCFO course.
You need access to Claude (claude.ai). A free Claude account is sufficient to test most prompts. For prompts involving large context files (e.g. the Annual Budget or 13-Week Cash Flow prompts), a Claude Pro subscription is recommended for the extended context window.
Course members already have access to the full 170-prompt book — all 257 pages across 13 CFO domains — as part of their enrolment. Log in to your course dashboard to access it. The 10-day challenge is a public preview of the book's content.
Generic prompts ask Claude to 'analyse my financials.' CFO-grade prompts specify the exact output format, name the intended reader, define what good looks like, embed binding Finance Rules that prevent fabrication and hedge language, and include an Execution Gate that catches data gaps before the analysis begins. The difference in output quality is significant.
The prompts are designed and tested for Claude. The Finance Rules and Execution Gate architecture leverages Claude's instruction-following capabilities. Most prompts will work with GPT-4 or Gemini, but the governance architecture is optimised for Claude.
The Claude Prompts for CFOs book launches on 15 June 2026. Register your email to receive a launch-day notification and early access details.
170
prompts in the full book · 13 CFO domains · 257 pages
This challenge gives you 10 of 170.
The Claude Prompts for CFOs book covers every domain of the modern CFO office — from FP&A and Controllership to M&A, Investor Relations, and CFO Leadership. It launches on 15 June 2026 and is bundled free with the AIforCFO course — along with a growing library of AI toolkits.
Start with 10 prompts. Free. Today.
Register once and receive the full 10-prompt bundle as a PDF — ready to paste into Claude with your own financial data. No credit card. No course required.