Claw Series
Skills catalog
The accounting skills AccountingClaw ships with, grouped by area, plus a deep-dive on how any one of them works end-to-end.
AccountingClaw ships with two dozen accounting skills out of the box. You don't invoke them by name — you describe what you need in chat and AccountingClaw runs the right one. This page lists what's available so you know what to ask for, and ends with a deep-dive on one skill to show the pattern they all follow. To see the installed skills at any time, run hermes skills list.
Reconciliation & close
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
| balance-sheet-reconciler | Reconciles a GL account to its supporting documentation with roll-forward, aging, and fuzzy matching. |
| payroll-gl-reconciler | Ties the payroll register to the GL by component and analyzes provider-versus-GL variance. |
| intercompany-elimination-bot | Matches cross-entity intercompany balances, isolates FX differences, and generates elimination JEs. |
| close-orchestration-dashboard | Tracks a dependency-aware month-end close with critical-path analysis and burn-down reporting. |
Income statement & revenue
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
| flux-variance-analyst | Runs period-over-period flux analysis with top-driver extraction and controller-ready commentary. |
| rev-rec-606-analyst | Runs the five-step ASC 606 engine — performance-obligation identification, constraint, SSP allocation, monthly waterfall, and modifications. |
Journal entries, provisions & estimates
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
| journal-entry-assistant | Drafts and balances multi-line journal entries with chart-of-accounts-driven Dr/Cr logic and ERP-ready upload templates. |
| tax-provision-calculator | Builds an ASC 740 income tax provision with current and deferred layering, DTA/DTL roll-forward, ETR reconciliation, and FIN 48 flags. |
| reserves-estimator | Estimates the CECL (ASC 326) allowance via aging-based loss rates with qualitative overlays and sensitivity analysis. |
Financial reporting & technical accounting
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
| debt-equity-reviewer | Classifies preferred stock, warrants, SAFEs, and convertible debt via the ASC 480 and 815-40 decision tree. |
| disclosure-footnote-assistant | Drafts GAAP and SEC footnotes (debt, leases, income tax, segments) with cross-footing checks. |
| lease-842-assistant | Applies the ASC 842 lessee model — classification, present value, ROU asset and liability, amortization, modifications, and JE generation. |
| tech-accounting-memo | Drafts an IRAC technical accounting memo (Word) with ASC and IFRS citation scaffolding. |
Fixed assets & policy compliance
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
| fixed-asset-lifecycle-manager | Handles capitalization, depreciation (straight-line, DDB, MACRS), impairment, disposal, and GL roll-forward for a fixed-asset register. |
| expense-policy-reviewer | Audits T&E reports against policy with category limits, missing-receipt and duplicate detection, and risk scoring. |
| ap-exception-reviewer | Detects duplicate invoices, coding inconsistencies, three-way-match exceptions, and approval-limit breaches. |
Audit & controls
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
| audit-pbc-coordinator | Tracks PBC (prepared-by-client) requests with dependency-aware status reporting and burn-down. |
| audit-evidence-packager | Maps PBC requests to evidence, validates completeness, ties schedules to the GL, and produces auditor-ready packages. |
| sox-control-reviewer | Performs a walkthrough review of SOX control narratives against evidence with IPE/IUC validation. |
Tax research
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
| corporate-tax-researcher | Researches Form 1120 issues (M-1/M-3, §382 NOLs, §163(j), R&D, GILTI/FDII) into an IRAC dossier. |
| individual-tax-researcher | Researches Form 1040 issues (QBI §199A, passive activity losses §469, basis, residency, wash sales) into an IRAC dossier. |
| partnership-tax-researcher | Researches Subchapter K issues (§704(b)/(c), §752 liabilities, §754/§743/§734 basis, tax-basis capital) into an IRAC dossier. |
| sales-tax-researcher | Monitors SALT nexus (economic and physical), product taxability, and exemption-certificate management. |
| transfer-pricing-analyst | Performs FAR analysis, best-method selection, and benchmarking memo drafting under IRC §482 and OECD guidelines. |
Deep-dive: how a skill works
Every skill follows the same prepare → review → sign-off shape. The balance-sheet reconciler is a good example.
What you give it:
- A GL export for the account — a CSV or Excel file with
date,description, andamountcolumns. - A support schedule — the authoritative source you're reconciling against (a bank statement, sub-ledger detail, or amortization schedule), in the same format.
- (Optional) the prior period's reconciliation, so it can roll forward last period's open items and confirm they cleared.
What you can tune: the reconciliation as-of date, a materiality threshold (default $5,000) below which small unmatched items are aggregated, and the tolerances used for matching — amount, date, and description similarity. AccountingClaw applies sensible defaults if you don't specify them.
What it does: it validates both files, compares the GL balance to the support balance, matches transactions exactly and then by fuzzy match (within your tolerances), ages whatever is left over into 0–30 / 31–60 / 61–90 / >90-day buckets, rolls forward prior open items, and assigns a PASS or FAIL status.
What you get back — a multi-sheet Excel workpaper:
| Sheet | Contents |
|---|---|
| Summary | Account, as-of date, GL vs. support balance, variance, PASS/FAIL status, and unmatched counts. |
| Detail | Every GL and support row side-by-side with its match status. |
| Unmatched | Items in the GL but not the support (and vice versa), with age and aging bucket. |
| Aging | Aging-bucket totals by side. |
| RollForward | Prior open / cleared / still-open / newly-open items (when a prior period is supplied). |
| AuditTrail | The run parameters, input row counts, thresholds, and timestamp. |
| SignOff | Preparer / Reviewer / Approver lines for your sign-off. |
Your review checklist: confirm the GL balance ties to the trial balance, that the support is the authoritative source, that every unmatched item has a written explanation, that nothing aged over 90 days is left without approval, and that the sign-off is completed by two different people. AccountingClaw prepares the workpaper; you review and sign it.
Every other skill works the same way — give it your data, optionally tune the thresholds, and get back a structured deliverable ready for human review. To start, see Working with AccountingClaw.