# Variance Analysis

> Decompose financial variances into drivers with narrative explanations and waterfall analysis. Use when analyzing budget vs. actual, period-over-period changes, revenue or expense variances, or preparing variance commentary for leadership.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-anthropics-variance-analysis
- tashan id: skill:anthropics/variance-analysis
- Source: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
- Type: skill
- Category: other
- tashan score: 51.0 / 100
- Adoption: 14.0
- Upkeep: 99.0
- Freshness: 97.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: Apache-2.0
- Official: yes

## Install

```sh
cp -r variance-analysis ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-09-12 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.