Variance commentary
The monthly commentary drafted from your exports, every figure traceable.
AI training · Finance
AI training for finance teams where every figure is checked.
A half-day session, remote, on the tools your team already has. Variance commentary, report summaries, spreadsheet formulas and supplier analysis, done faster, with a method to check every number.
- 3.5 hoursPer session, remote
- 12 peopleMaximum per group
- From €1,800Per session, excl. VAT
Without context
Explain the variances in this month's figures.
Plausible sentences, some of them wrong.
With context
- Role
- You are a controller preparing the monthly review for the executive committee.
- Audience
- Non-finance directors who need the three causes that matter.
- Sources
- The attached budget versus actual export, nothing else.
- Format
- Five lines, figures quoted from the file, flag anything you cannot explain.
A commentary you can check line by line.
Use cases
Your team's tasks. Done better, faster.
Six examples from the session. On the scoping call, we keep the ones that matter most to your team.
Report summaries
Long reports and contracts reduced to the points that need a decision.
Spreadsheet formulas
Formulas, pivot tables and macros explained and written, then tested.
Supplier analysis
Quotes and contracts compared on the criteria you set.
Process documentation
Closing procedures and controls written down with the people who run them.
A finance assistant
A custom assistant that knows your chart of accounts and reporting rules.
The session
3.5 hours. Four moments.
Every exercise uses your team's own documents, anonymised when needed.
- 01
The context method
Role, audience, sources and format: the four elements of a good request, applied to a variance commentary.
- 02
Live demonstration
A monthly commentary built live from an anonymised export, then checked line by line.
- 03
Practice on real work
Each participant works on a task from their own close: a report, a formula, a supplier comparison.
- 04
The team library
The prompts, the contexts and the assistant built in the session stay with the team, with 30 days to send us your questions.
Finance
From €1,800
Half-day session, up to 12 people, remote or on site.
- A 30-minute scoping call
- Exercises built from your documents
- A custom assistant for the team
- The team's prompt and context library
- A certificate of attendance for each participant
- 30 days of questions after the session
Guardrails
Faster. Never careless.
The rules your team applies from the first request.
- AI drafts and explains; your systems remain the source of truth for every figure
- Every number in a commentary is traced back to the source file
- No unpublished financial data in unapproved tools
- Formulas are tested on known cases before they are used
Frequently asked questions
Questions before you book
Can AI do our calculations?
Language models are not reliable calculators. The session teaches your team to use AI to write, explain and structure, and to leave calculations to Excel, your ERP or a tool that runs actual code.
Does it work with Excel and Copilot?
Yes. Microsoft Copilot in Excel is covered if your company has it; otherwise we work with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini alongside your spreadsheets.
How do you protect financial data?
Exercises use anonymised or public figures. We show how to set up each tool so your data is not used to train models, and which data never goes in.
How much does the session cost?
From €1,800 excl. VAT for a half-day session with up to 12 people, depending on how far we tailor it. The price is fixed before the session, after a 30-minute scoping call.
Talk directly
with your trainer
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Other roles
One method. Every function.
Each session follows the same method, built on the work of the team in the room.
Your team, next
Your first session starts with a call.
Thirty minutes to understand your team and its tools. Within 48 hours, a programme and a price. If we are not the right fit, we will say so.