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Research spend cohort adjustment
Build an analyst research asset and amortization schedule from dated R&D expense cohorts.
Research spend cohort adjustment is a free AI skill for the job "Track your numbers". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
Free · No account · Made by AI Blocks · Level: advanced · Thinking: high
What it does
A cohort research-asset schedule and operating-profit adjustment, separate from statutory accounting. Issuer accounting and earnings. Illustrative figures. Asset30+24×2/3+18×1/3=52. Amortization(24+18+12)/3=18. Adjusted EBIT100+30-18=112. Current expense36 raises the year-end asset and EBIT adjustment by6 under the stated convention.
You give it
- Current and prior R&D expense cohorts, reported EBIT, chosen economic life and evidence for the amortization convention.
- Reporting date, currency and scale, fiscal calendar, accounting basis and authorized scope.
- Available spreadsheet tools and required native output format.
You get
- A cohort research-asset schedule and operating-profit adjustment, separate from statutory accounting.
- An illustrative editable workbook, input schema, executable calculation reference and golden test cases.
- Reconciliation results, unresolved inputs and actual checks completed.
Use it when
- You need a cohort research-asset schedule and operating-profit adjustment, separate from statutory accounting.
- You work on issuer accounting and earnings and need traceable calculations.
- A reviewer needs to trace the result back to inputs and assumptions.
How to use it
- Download the complete pack and read its governing SKILL.md.
- Share the actual sources and the financial question you need answered.
- Ask your AI to follow the methods, preserve original files and stop affected work on missing evidence.
- Review assumptions, reconciliations and CHECKS MISSED before relying on the result.