# Department or project budget (/finance--budget-planner)

/finance--budget-planner is a Claude Code skill in the Business section. Builds a monthly budget by category with explicit assumptions, plus a variance sheet that compares actual spend against plan.

- Web version: https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/s/finance--budget-planner
- Section: [Business](https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/business.md)
- Author: Santiago Gómez de la Torre
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/blob/main/skills/finance/budget-planner.md
- Updated 10 Jul 2026

## How to ask for it

- `/finance--budget-planner create the marketing department budget for this year`
- `/finance--budget-planner I need to track spending variance for this project`
- `/finance--budget-planner define the budget categories for next quarter`

## Install

macOS · Linux:

```
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/main/install.sh | bash
```

Windows:

```
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/main/install.ps1 | iex
```

Claude Code plugin:

```
/plugin marketplace add sgomez-dev/claude-skills
/plugin install finance-skills@claude-skills-collection
```

## Permissions

- Reads: `*.csv`, `*.json`, `*.md`
- Writes: `budget_*.csv`, `budget_*.md`
- Runs: —
- Network: No
- Destructive: No

## Author's description

Departmental/project budget with categories, assumptions, variance tracking

- [How we review this](https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/methodology.md)