Finance assignment: what does Northstar cost and what do the scenarios mean?

You have 50 minutes before the leadership checkpoint. Use only the supplied synthetic sources. Treat filenames such as “final-maybe” as labels, not approval.

Use these sources

• 00-brief/
• 01-customer-and-business/crm-export/opportunities.csv
• 04-finance/
• 06-leadership/executive-kpis.csv
• 07-inbox/[email protected]

Deliverables

Complete 08-output-templates/budget-summary-template.md with:

1. a line-by-line comparison of budget v1 and v2;
2. cautious, base, and offensive scenarios with reproducible arithmetic;
3. a list of data-quality risks and unsupported interpretations;
4. a finance comment and recommendation for leadership;
5. the human owner of every unresolved approval or assumption.

Every material number must cite a source ID. Before submission, open each cited source and repeat the calculation without relying on the AI's arithmetic. Record one AI suggestion you corrected or rejected and why.

Suggested timebox: 10 minutes to map sources, 20 minutes to calculate, 15 minutes to write, and 5 minutes to verify and prepare a two-minute presentation.

Stretch

Turn your final prompt sequence into a six-step reusable workflow for checking a multi-currency programme budget.