Hire an AI working capital and cash tax checker

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• A noncash working capital bridge giving the real cash effect
• A split of revenue translation from balance sheet translation
• A current tax cash payment bridge
• A link of both bridges to reported operating cash flow, with current tax counted once
• Every residual, MISSING input and check that could not run

How it does the job well

• Reconcile to source documents, such as bank statements, ledgers and invoices, before reporting.
• Show the calculation, inputs and period for every figure.
• Label actuals, estimates and forecasts clearly.
• Send tax, legal and regulatory questions to a qualified professional.

Mistakes it avoids

• Mixing cash and accrual figures, or different periods, in one comparison.
• Rounding or formula errors that do not tie back to totals.
• Giving personal investment advice.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: Operating cash flow looks weak and the balance sheet does not explain why.

• outputs/step-1-noncash-working-capital-bridge.md. The real cash effect of working capital, after acquisitions, translation and other noncash movements.
• outputs/step-2-constant-currency-revenue-bridge.md. Revenue translation and balance sheet translation, each on its own rate basis.
• outputs/step-3-current-tax-cash-payment-bridge.md. Current tax expense and payables taken to cash taxes paid.
• HAND-BACK SUMMARY. Files saved, the link to operating cash flow, MISSING lines and checks missed.

How the work is checked

• Operating cash investment and cash taxes reconcile to their independent source notes; FX conventions are explicit; tax/financing balances are excluded from working capital and every residual is retained.
• Trace each material input to its source, date, currency, scale, sign and reporting period. Retain unresolved MISSING: lines.
• Keep hardcoded inputs separate from live formulas. Inspect changed inputs, actual recalculation, exported formulas and saved-file reopening.
• Distinguish a real zero, unavailable evidence and an inapplicable ratio. Never force a financial statement tie with an unexplained plug.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

Capabilities

• Noncash working-capital bridge. Maps operating balances and leaves out tax and financing items. Removes acquisitions, translation and other noncash movements, then works out the indirect cash effect. Hands step 2 the balance sheet translation amounts. Check before moving on, each noncash movement has a source.
• Constant-currency revenue bridge. Uses the issuer's currency buckets to separate revenue translation from balance sheet translation. Never uses the average revenue rate in place of the balance sheet note. Check before moving on, the two conventions are labelled.
• Current tax cash-payment bridge. Reconciles the current tax payables left out in step 1 to cash taxes. Connects the two schedules to operating cash flow without counting current tax in working capital too. Check before you rely on it, every residual is shown.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id reconcile-working-capital-and-tax-cash only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/reconcile-working-capital-and-tax-cash/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• Opening and closing balances for receivables, inventory, payables and other operating items (from the balance sheet)
• Acquisition, translation and other noncash movements (from the notes)
• The issuer's currency buckets and revenue translation effect (from the currency disclosure)
• Current tax expense, payables and tax paid (from the tax note)
• Reported cash flow lines, plus the currency and scale

Helpful context (optional)

• The tax note and the currency note, not a summary.
• Both balance sheets for the periods compared.
• The cash flow statement with its line labels.

Tools and access

• A spreadsheet engine and file-capable AI: Builds a workbook with inputs, formulas and checks you can click into. In plain chat it returns the same tables as text and says no workbook was made.
• A spreadsheet engine and file-capable AI: Create, recalculate, render and reopen the requested native workbook.
• Node.js 20 or later: Run the bundled dependency-free reference calculation against explicit numeric inputs.

Functions and deliverables

• Working capital and cash tax checker: Share balance changes, currency notes and tax schedules. Get linked checks of operating cash movements, cash taxes and unresolved differences.
  • A noncash working capital bridge giving the real cash effect
  • A split of revenue translation from balance sheet translation
  • A current tax cash payment bridge
  • A link of both bridges to reported operating cash flow, with current tax counted once
  • Every residual, MISSING input and check that could not run
• Working capital cash change checker: Share working capital and noncash changes. Find the cash used after removing takeover, currency and write-off effects.
  • The operating investment in working capital for the period, and the matching cash-flow effect with its sign.
  • An editable workbook of the working capital investment, with its inputs, formulas and test cases to rerun.
  • A tie-out of the balance change and the noncash movements, the inputs still missing and the checks that ran.
• Revenue growth currency checker: Share sales and exchange rates for both periods. Separate sales growth from the effect of changing rates.
  • Reported growth and constant-currency growth, side by side
  • The translation effect as a signed amount
  • A table by currency showing how each figure was translated
  • A tie to reported revenue, with any residual left open
  • Sources, assumptions and a list of anything missing
• Cash tax payment reconciler: Share current tax expense and payable balances. Check cash paid against the reported payment and explain gaps.
  • The cash tax payment inferred from the payable roll-forward
  • The gap to the reported cash tax paid, as a signed amount
  • A short list of likely causes if the gap is not zero
  • Sources, assumptions and a list of anything missing
  • An editable workbook, if your AI can make spreadsheet files
• me.md builder: Answer a few questions, or let your AI use what it remembers. Get one private file that tells any AI who you are.
  • One me.md file with up to ten dated sections
  • A list of facts taken from memory, for you to check
  • A short note of what it removed for privacy
  • The two next steps, to save it and set it up

Tasks you can use it for

• Operating cash flow looks weak and the balance sheet does not explain why.
• An acquisition or a currency swing makes the balance sheet change misleading.
• Cash taxes paid differ from the tax expense in the income statement.
• A reviewer asks whether current tax was counted inside working capital as well.

Limits to check before starting

• You only need the working capital effect. Use the Working capital cash change checker on its own.
• You only need constant-currency revenue. Use the Revenue growth currency checker on its own.
• You only need tax paid. Use the Cash tax payment reconciler on its own.
• Factoring or supplier finance may be inside operating cash. Use the Factoring and supplier-finance cash-flow reviewer workflow first.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the workflow pack and give it to an AI that can read files, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. For a workbook, use one that can build spreadsheets.
• Attach the balance sheets, cash flow statement and notes. Say the periods, currency and scale once at the top.
• After step 1, check tax and financing items are left out and each noncash movement has a source.
• After step 2, check the revenue rate and the balance sheet rate are kept apart.
• After step 3, check tax is not in working capital as well. Fill every MISSING line before quoting a figure.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/reconcile-working-capital-and-tax-cash for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.