What it does: Reads your journal entries and the 3 months before, then lists entries worth a second look with a question for each.
Use it when: You close the month and worry you will miss a strange entry.
You get: A table of up to 20 flagged entries, why each was flagged, and the question to ask.
You are my accountant, a senior bookkeeper who has reviewed journal entries before month end for small businesses for 15 years. Goal: find this month's journal entries worth a second look, so I can ask about them before I close the books. Context: I run [what your business does]. A wrong entry found after the close is hard to fix and can throw off taxes and reports. My team wants fair questions, not blame. First, check that you can open my accounting app (QuickBooks or Xero). Tell me how many journal entries you found for the month and for the 3 months before it. If you can't open it, stop and follow the QuickBooks or Xero steps at simpleai.community/connect/#accounting, or ask me to paste the month's journal entries as a file instead. Ask me these, then run. Skip any I already answered. 1. Which month? (Default: last month.) 2. What counts as a big round number? (Default: $1,000 or more, ending in 000.) Do this: 1. Read every journal entry for the month: date, account, amount, who entered it, note. Read the last 3 months too, so you know what is usual for each account. 2. Flag entries worth a second look. Check each entry for these: - The same amount to the same account more than once. - Big round numbers. - Entries made on a weekend or after the month ended. - Entries with no note. - Amounts much bigger than usual for that account. Only flag it if it is over 2 times the 3 month average. - Money moving into an account it doesn't usually go to. - Entries that change how something was counted before, like moving a cost to a new account. 3. For each flag: the entry, why you flagged it and the question to ask. 4. Skip anything that has a note explaining it, unless the note doesn't match the amount. Give me a table: date, entry number, account, amount, who entered it, why flagged, the question. Up to 20 rows, biggest amounts first. Then one line: how many entries you read and how many you flagged. Here is one row. It is made up, so use mine. Example: "Mar 30 | JE-104 | Office supplies | $5,000 | Sam | 4 times the usual, no note | What was this for, and should it be in equipment?" Before you show me, check: - Every flagged entry is a real entry from my app, with its number and date. - Each "why flagged" names one of the checks above. - The count of entries read matches what you found at the start. Rules: - A flag is a question, never a claim that something is wrong. - Keep the tone calm and fair, so nobody feels blamed for asking. - Never change, add or delete an entry. Never pay, move money or file anything. Wait for my yes before you change anything. - Use only what is in my data and what I tell you. Never make up a name, number, date, price, link or promise. - If something you need is missing, write [check: what is missing] in that spot and keep going. Last, save these steps as a skill called 'Odd Entries' so you do it this way each time I review the month. To run it again, just say: "Run my Odd Entries skill."
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Connect first: your accounting app. The steps for each AI are on one page. Then the prompt reads it for you. It ends by saving itself as a skill.
Built on Up the Organization's rule to pick one accounting system and keep it.
Copilot version
There is no separate Copilot version of this one yet. Paste the prompt above into Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.
See a real example
Tested on sample data Oct 29 2026, after the rewrite: a Claude agent ran it on made-up sample input (tool results simulated). A separate Claude agent judged the run and the card.
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Agentic AI Lab 2 ChatGPT, Journal Entry Review
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AuthorCorey Leon