Budget Variance Tracker

Capabilities

1. Variance Analysis

• Imports actual financial data and compares it against

  financial-modeling-maestro

  forecasts.
• Highlights "Negative Variances" (e.g., higher than expected AWS costs) and deviations from IT Cost Benchmarks.

2. Root Cause Insight

• Connects with

  cloud-waste-hunter

  and

  agent-activity-monitor

  to explain why costs deviated.

Usage

• "Perform a month-end variance analysis for the Engineering department."
• "Why are our API costs 20% over budget this month? Provide a breakdown."

Knowledge Protocol

• Adheres to

  knowledge/orchestration/knowledge-protocol.md

  .
• References IT Cost Benchmarks for assessing budget health relative to company size and sector.