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name: cash-position-tracker
description: "Consolidates multi-entity, multi-currency bank balances into a single daily cash position view with FX conversion to a base currency, per-entity and per-account breakdowns, low-balance and unexpected-movement flags, and a prioritized action list. Use when building a daily cash position report, consolidating balances across banks and entities, converting foreign balances to a reporting currency, or flagging accounts that breached minimum thresholds or moved unexpectedly."
argument-hint: "[base-currency] [balance-data]"
allowed-tools: ["Read"]
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# Cash Position Tracker

## Purpose
Consolidate raw bank balances across multiple entities, accounts, and currencies into one daily position view — converted to a single reporting currency — and automatically flag low balances and unexpected day-over-day movements so the treasury team knows exactly which accounts need action before the funding cutoff.

## When to Use
Invoke this skill when the user asks to:
- Build a daily cash position report from bank balance data
- Consolidate balances across multiple entities, banks, or accounts
- Convert foreign-currency balances into a single base/reporting currency
- Flag accounts that dropped below their minimum operating balance
- Identify unexpected or large day-over-day balance movements
- Produce a morning cash summary for a funding or sweep decision

## Inputs Required
Before starting, collect:
- **Balance data**: Per-account balances — account name/number, entity, bank, currency, opening balance (or prior-day closing), and current/closing balance
- **Base currency**: The single reporting currency to consolidate into (e.g., USD, EUR, GBP)
- **FX rates**: Current spot rate per non-base currency to base; if omitted, note that rates must be supplied and flag any unconverted amounts
- **Minimum balance thresholds**: Per-account or per-entity floor balances that trigger a low-balance flag
- **Movement threshold**: The day-over-day change (absolute amount and/or %) that qualifies as "unexpected" — default: ±20% or ±$100K base equivalent, whichever is smaller
- **As-of date**: The position date the report represents
- **Expected flows (optional)**: Known receipts/disbursements that explain large movements so they aren't falsely flagged

If minimum thresholds or a movement threshold are not provided, apply the defaults above and state the assumption in the report header.

## Instructions

### Step 1: Normalize and Validate the Balance Data
- Standardize every account row: entity, bank, account, currency, prior-day closing, current balance, day-over-day change.
- Flag data integrity issues before consolidating: missing currency, missing prior-day balance (movement can't be computed), duplicate account entries, or a balance with no matching FX rate.
- List any excluded or incomplete rows explicitly — never silently drop an account from the position.

### Step 2: Convert to Base Currency
- Apply the supplied spot rate to each non-base-currency balance: `base_amount = native_amount × rate_to_base`.
- Show both native and base amounts for every account so the source figure is auditable.
- If a rate is missing for any currency, leave that balance unconverted, mark it clearly, and exclude it from base-currency totals with a note.

### Step 3: Aggregate the Position
Build the consolidated view at three levels:
- **Total**: Total cash position in base currency across all entities.
- **By entity**: Base-currency subtotal per legal entity.
- **By currency**: Native totals per currency plus base equivalents (surfaces FX concentration).
- Compute total day-over-day movement in base currency and the net change by entity.

### Step 4: Apply Low-Balance Flags
- Compare each account's current balance to its minimum threshold in the account's native currency.
- Mark each flagged account with severity:
  - **Breach**: Balance below the minimum threshold.
  - **Watch**: Balance within 10% of the minimum but not yet breached.
- For each breach, compute the shortfall amount (threshold − current balance) so the funding requirement is explicit.

### Step 5: Apply Movement Flags
- For every account with a prior-day balance, compute day-over-day change in native currency (absolute and %).
- Flag any movement exceeding the movement threshold as **Unexpected Movement**, unless a supplied expected flow explains it — in which case tag it **Explained** and note the source.
- Distinguish inflows from outflows; a large unexplained outflow ranks higher than a large inflow.

### Step 6: Build the Prioritized Action List
Rank required actions in order of urgency:
1. Low-balance breaches with a funding shortfall (largest shortfall first)
2. Large unexplained outflows (potential error, fraud, or unrecorded transfer)
3. Watch-level accounts approaching their floor
4. Data issues blocking a complete position (missing rates, missing prior-day balances)
Each action states the account, the issue, the amount involved, and the recommended next step (e.g., fund, sweep, investigate, obtain rate).

## Output Format
- **Structure**: Header (as-of date, base currency, assumptions) → Consolidated summary → By-entity table → By-currency table → Flags section (low-balance and movement) → Prioritized action list
- **Length**: 500–900 words plus tables, scaling with account count
- **Format**: Structured document with tables for account-level and aggregate figures; flags and actions as labeled lists
- **Sections**: Position Header → Total & Summary → By Entity → By Currency → Low-Balance Flags → Movement Flags → Prioritized Actions
- **Tone**: Treasury operations — precise, figure-first, no narrative padding; every number traceable to a source balance

## Quality Checklist
Before delivering output, verify:
- [ ] Every account in the input appears in the position or is explicitly listed as excluded with a reason
- [ ] Base-currency total equals the sum of all converted account balances (numbers reconcile)
- [ ] Each account shows both native and base-currency amounts
- [ ] Every low-balance flag includes a computed shortfall amount
- [ ] Every movement flag states absolute and % change and whether it's explained
- [ ] Action list is ranked by urgency with a specific recommended step per item
- [ ] Any missing FX rate or prior-day balance is flagged, not silently ignored

## Notes
- Large unexplained outflows deserve investigation before funding decisions — a movement flag can be the first sign of an error, duplicate payment, or unrecorded transfer.
- FX concentration in the by-currency view matters for hedging: a position that looks healthy in base currency may carry outsized exposure in one volatile currency.
- If the same data is run daily, prior-day closing should tie to the previous report's closing — a mismatch signals a missed or backdated transaction.
- When expected flows are supplied, use them to suppress false alarms, but never suppress a low-balance breach — a breach is actionable regardless of cause.

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